Gothamist77%
Extra Extra: Joe Biden took his granddaughter to an allegedly 'random' UES Italian restaurant 25%
By James Ramsay0%
6/5/2026, 11:30:58 AM
Keywords: Extra Extra
BS Summary: This article contains 4 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Anchoring Bias, and Quote-first Misdirection, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 22.1% saturation with 42 hits. Analysis detected 109 faulty-reasoning hits from 190 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 37.4% and a BS Rank of 25% (16,466 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 75.20% of the article peer group.
Good Friday afternoon in New York City, where the lights will stay on later at select ball fields this summer.
Here's what else is happening:
The big wooden bear outside Q Florist on Columbus Ave and West 82nd Street is ready for the NBA Finals.
A state appeals court ruled this week that New York City has to notify the public within four hours every time sewage is discharged into a local waterway.
Earlier this week, Joe and Jill Biden took their granddaughter to an Upper East Side Italian restaurant that Jane Fonda called "random," though allegedly they have good artichokes.
Discount airliner Ryanair said it's having to divert an average of one flight a day due to drunken passenger shenanigans, but the push to ban or limit morning pints at British airports is coming up against some pushback.
The average school district superintendent in New Jersey now makes more than $200,000 a year.
You can do some good birding without leaving a New Jersey backyard.
I want these World Cup stickers.
And finally, weekend shimmy:
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
7.9%Anchoring Bias
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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
22.1%Framing Effect
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22.1%AuthorJames Ramsay
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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
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
20%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
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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190 words analyzed.
Analysis
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