Gothamist76%
Early Addition: A New Jersey affordable housing bureaucrat is rocking on 'Jeopardy!' 0%
By James Ramsay0%
4/14/2026, 2:01:05 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Unattributed Quote, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 40.9% saturation with 72 hits. Analysis detected 434 faulty-reasoning hits from 176 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 0% and a BS Rank of 0% (0 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 100.00% of the article peer group.
Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where it could soon be legal to hang a little solar panel out your apartment window.
Here's what else is happening:
• Republican Rep.
Mike Lawler, who represents a Hudson Valley swing district, took (and returned) some harsh words at a recent town hall.
• Since Mayor Mamdani took office, the financial service industry's New York City employment numbers have hit a record high.
• Meet the orange cat who survived getting hit by a Long Island Rail Road train.
• The New Jersey affordable housing tax credit administrator who's been rocking on "Jeopardy!"
used one of his little chat segments to scold New York for not building enough units.
• "Bees are sold by weight, like cheese or cocaine": Welcome to the Upper West Side's annual live bee hive sale.
• Keegan Michael-Key is in every commercial.
• It's a little disappointing to see people dry-snitching on their favorite expensive chicken restaurants.
• And finally, shoo:
Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
13.1%Availability Heuristic
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13.1%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
11.4%Hindsight Bias
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11.4%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Overconfidence Bias
4%Overconfidence Bias
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4%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Framing Effect
0%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
1.8%PublicationGothamist
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Optimism Bias
13.1%Optimism Bias
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13.1%AuthorJames Ramsay
3.5%PublicationGothamist
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Pessimism Bias
8.5%Pessimism Bias
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8.5%AuthorJames Ramsay
1.6%PublicationGothamist
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Negativity Bias
40.9%Negativity Bias
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40.9%AuthorJames Ramsay
14.2%PublicationGothamist
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Fundamental Attribution Error
9.1%Fundamental Attribution Error
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9.1%AuthorJames Ramsay
1.2%PublicationGothamist
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
3%PublicationGothamist
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Halo Effect
8%Halo Effect
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8%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
6.7%PublicationGothamist
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
1.3%PublicationGothamist
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Hasty Generalization
4%Hasty Generalization
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4%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
0.4%PublicationGothamist
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Appeal to Emotion
20.5%Appeal to Emotion
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20.5%AuthorJames Ramsay
4.4%PublicationGothamist
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
11.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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11.4%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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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
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
11.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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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
23.3%Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
19.9%Quote-first Misdirection
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19.9%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Biased Writer Voice
38.6%Biased Writer Voice
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38.6%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Indoctrination
9.1%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorJames Ramsay
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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176 words analyzed.
Analysis
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