BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Hasty Generalization, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 20.8% saturation with 36 hits. Analysis detected 171 faulty-reasoning hits from 173 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 18.5% and a BS Rank of 5% (21,731 of 22,831 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 95.20% of the article peer group.
The Harris County Sheriff's Office is investigating the apparent murder-suicide of a couple found Friday in a Cypress home.
Officials with the sheriff's office said the couple's son found his parents at 2:45 a.m. in the 13000 block of Campos Drive, which is in the Barwood neighborhood off North Eldridge Parkway, and called 911.
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“An adult male called stating he found his parents deceased inside their room,” said Sgt.
Michael Ritchie with the Harris County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Division.
Ritchie said deputies and emergency medical personnel responded to the home where the couple, who were in their 70s, were pronounced deceased.
“This was an elderly couple that had been married, and unfortunately it looks like the husband shot the wife and then turned the weapon on himself,” Ritchie said.
Detectives are interviewing family members, including the son who was detained on scene.
The names of the couple were not released.
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
2.1%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
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Availability Heuristic
8.7%Availability Heuristic
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8.7%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
2.6%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Framing Effect
11%Framing Effect
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11%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
3.7%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
0%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
1.9%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
0%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
1%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
0.6%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Negativity Bias
20.8%Negativity Bias
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20.8%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
6.3%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
1.1%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
0%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
0.4%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
2%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
0%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
1.7%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
0.3%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
0.2%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
1.3%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
0.4%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Appeal to Authority
16.2%Appeal to Authority
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16.2%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
4.2%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
1.4%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
0.7%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
0.6%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Hasty Generalization
16.2%Hasty Generalization
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16.2%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
3%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Red Herring
8.7%Red Herring
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8.7%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
3.9%PublicationHouston Chronicle
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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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
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
8.7%Unattributed Quote
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8.7%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
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Quote-first Misdirection
8.7%Quote-first Misdirection
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8.7%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
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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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0%AuthorCatherine Dominguez
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173 words analyzed.
Analysis
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