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St. Louis wants your thoughts on how to spend the Rams settlement money 3%

By Rebecca Thiele0%

5/18/2026, 7:53:26 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Loss Aversion, Pessimism Bias, and Framing Effect, with Anchoring Bias as the most egregious example at 16.2% saturation with 41 hits. Analysis detected 97 faulty-reasoning hits from 253 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 15.4% and a BS Rank of 3% (16,364 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.30% of the article peer group.

The City of St. 
Louis wants residents’ thoughts on how to spend the money from the Rams settlement. 
The city is considering a bill to spend $230 million from the settlement, with $110 million going to north city, to support residents whose homes were damaged in last year’s devastating tornado. 
The other $120 million would be split between projects to revitalize downtown ($55 million) and to improve the city’s infrastructure ($65 million), including at least $30 million to repair St. 
Louis’ aging drinking water pipes and other water systems. 
The city is gathering residents' opinions on the plan in a survey it opened up last week. 
St. 
Louisans will have until the end of the day on May 27 to fill it out. 
The survey results will be shared with elected officials. 
At a rally led by Action St. 
Louis last week, activists and north city residents demanded the city allocate $40 million more to tornado recovery. 
Some members of the St. 
Louis Board of Aldermen want to devote more of the Rams settlement money to rebuilding north city than others. 
But many of them say that not even the full $230 million would be enough to make residents whole. 
The storm caused an estimated $1.6 billion in damage. 
The city will also hold its first public hearing on the Rams settlement bill at 11 a.m. 
May 26 at City Hall during a Housing, Urban Development and Zoning Committee meeting. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
16.2%
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
7.1%
Loss Aversion
7.5%
Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
7.5%
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
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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253 words analyzed.

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