Gothamist76%

Extra Extra: Why is everyone Googling Cory Booker?0%

By James Ramsay0%

12/19/2025, 8:01:01 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Confirmation Bias, and Pessimism Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 36.6% saturation with 64 hits. Analysis detected 323 faulty-reasoning hits from 175 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 Friday afternoon in New York City, where the Trump administration keeps making empty threats to pull transit funding. 
Here's what else is happening: 
- Flights at local airports have been delayed today because of this windy weather. 
- New York City did not clear the ice from all the bus stops and park walkways like it's supposed to. 
- Drivers of massive trucks coming off the Williamsburg Bridge into Manhattan keep making illegal detours up Clinton Street on the Lower East Side. 
- The Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in Queens will be turned into an official "fan zone" for next summer's World Cup. 
- A lot of people Googled Cory Booker this year. 
- Pete Davidson and his girlfriend had their baby. 
- Uber Eats data indicates that food in bowls remained popular in 2025. 
- Perhaps in 2026, marriage will see some more appreciation. 
And finally, the quills stay put: 
"Rico snacking is the best sound! 
Contrary to popular belief, a porcupine cannot shoot its spines and quills."  Cincinnati Zoo 
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
7.4%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Confirmation Bias
19.4%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Framing Effect
22.9%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Halo Effect
3.4%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Horn Effect
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Loss Aversion
0%
Negativity Bias
36.6%
Optimism Bias
5.7%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
13.7%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
16.6%
Primacy Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Anecdotal
3.4%
Appeal to Authority
16%
Appeal to Emotion
3.4%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Composition/Division
0%
False Dilemma
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Hasty Generalization
13.7%
Middle Ground
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Personal Incredulity
5.7%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
8%
Red Herring
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Straw Man
8.6%
Tu Quoque
0%

175 words analyzed.

Analysis

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