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Global conflict hits home ... mortgages. 74%
By Rubina Ahmed-Haq0%
4/29/2026, 12:00:00 AM
Topics: Global Events Impact
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Availability Heuristic, and Framing Effect, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 37% saturation with 20 hits. Analysis detected 74 faulty-reasoning hits from 54 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.7% and a BS Rank of 74% (4,455 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 73.50% of the article peer group.
Major events a world away can impact our pocket book.
This is especially true when it comes to our ability to borrow money - including for a home.
Our personal finance columnist, Rubina Ahmed-Haq, has this look at how to shop for a mortgage in these turbulent times.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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54 words analyzed.
Analysis
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