The homicide rate is falling. Domestic killings are not. 73%
By Danielle Paquette0% Hannah Natanson0% John D. Harden0%
6/6/2026, 2:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including False Dilemma, Framing Effect, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 58.4% saturation with 45 hits. Analysis detected 291 faulty-reasoning hits from 77 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 65.3% and a BS Rank of 73% (5,950 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 72.80% of the article peer group.
In the first two days of June, authorities said, three fathers killed their children and the mothers who raised them.
Two used guns.
One used a knife.
Of the thirteen victims, the youngest was three.
Officials cast the mass killings in Iowa, New York and Florida as “an act of evil,” “the worst of the worst,” and “an unimaginable tragedy,” but Doreen Dodgen-Magee thought of another word: preventable.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
36.4%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
42.9%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
58.4%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
48.1%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
42.9%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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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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77 words analyzed.
Analysis
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