KQED61%
Guide to San Francisco’s Ballot: Dueling Tax Measures, Sunset District Supervisor, Race to Replace Pelosi 55%
By Marisa Lagos91% Guy Marzorati75% Sydney Johnson62%
5/22/2026, 11:05:26 PM
Topics: Political Breakdown
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Primacy Effect, Middle Ground, and Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 61.1% saturation with 91 hits. Analysis detected 385 faulty-reasoning hits from 149 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 52.7% and a BS Rank of 55% (7,708 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 54.20% of the article peer group.
Marisa, Guy and KQED’s Sydney Johnson crack open San Francisco’s ballot and dig into the competing business-tax measures Proposition D and Proposition C, the Sunset District supervisor’s race and what an ideal election night would look like for Mayor Daniel Lurie, who’s weighed in on all of it.
Plus, they discuss the race to replace Rep.
Nancy Pelosi in Congress and her endorsement this week of San Francisco Supervisor Connie Chan.
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Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
7.4%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
61.1%Framing Effect
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61.1%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Negativity Bias
10.1%Negativity Bias
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10.1%AuthorMarisa Lagos
11.5%PublicationCalMatters
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
2.9%PublicationCalMatters
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
2.2%PublicationCalMatters
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Halo Effect
13.4%Halo Effect
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13.4%AuthorMarisa Lagos
2.9%PublicationCalMatters
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
10.1%Recency Bias
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10.1%AuthorMarisa Lagos
2.6%PublicationCalMatters
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Primacy Effect
32.2%Primacy Effect
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32.2%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Appeal to Authority
23.5%Appeal to Authority
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23.5%AuthorMarisa Lagos
4.6%PublicationCalMatters
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False Dilemma
10.1%False Dilemma
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10.1%AuthorMarisa Lagos
2.5%PublicationCalMatters
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
1.2%PublicationCalMatters
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
32.2%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
32.2%Biased Writer Voice
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32.2%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Indoctrination
13.4%Indoctrination
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13.4%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
12.8%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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12.8%AuthorMarisa Lagos
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149 words analyzed.
Analysis
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