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The Workers Who Make SFO Go 'Round Want Higher Wages 91%

By Ericka Cruz Guevarra0% Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman29% Pauline Bartolone0% Jessica Kariisa0%

5/13/2026, 10:00:06 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote, Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 50% saturation with 46 hits. Analysis detected 271 faulty-reasoning hits from 92 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 85.3% and a BS Rank of 91% (1,629 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 90.30% of the article peer group.

Workers at San Francisco International Airport who clean planes, handle baggage, and push wheelchairs told city supervisors at a recent hearing that they’re sleeping in their cars and surviving on rice and oatmeal. 
Now city supervisors say their labor fight for higher wages is on notice. 
Links: 
San Francisco Airport Labor Fight Hits City Hall This Week 
Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
35.9%
Representativeness Heuristic
27.2%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
21.7%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
50%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
27.2%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
35.9%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
35.9%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
50%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
10.9%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

92 words analyzed.

Analysis

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