Gothamist77%
Early Addition: The proper way to release a great white shark you accidentally catch 37%
By James Ramsay0%
6/15/2026, 5:58:51 AM
Topics: New York City, Great White Shark, Knicks, Puerto Rican Day Parade, Red Lobster, Coastal Flood Advisory, Manhattan, Nantucket
Keywords: Early Addition
BS Summary: This article contains 14 faulty reasoning types, including Anecdotal, Framing Effect, and Negativity Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 23.4% saturation with 33 hits. Analysis detected 236 faulty-reasoning hits from 141 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 43.3% and a BS Rank of 37% (13,997 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 63.90% of the article peer group.
Good Monday morning in New York City, where the Knicks are getting a championship parade on Thursday.
Here's what else is happening:
Knicks guard and Williamsburg native Jose Alvarado made a special appearance at yesterday's Puerto Rican Day Parade in Bushwick.
It was a bittersweet final weekend at the Times Square Red Lobster.
They say you can still get a great lobster dinner at Tops Diner in East Newark.
A coastal flood advisory is taking effect overnight in parts of New Jersey.
Having a job: Not as appealing to some graduates these days.
What is increasingly appealing is running the 32-mile loop around the island of Manhattan.
Solid technique by this Nantucket fisherman who caught and then physically released a great white shark.
And finally, SEE IT:
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
11.3%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
19.9%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
9.9%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
16.3%Negativity Bias
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16.3%AuthorJames Ramsay
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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
11.3%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
7.8%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
7.8%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
2.8%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
22.7%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
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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141 words analyzed.
Analysis
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