BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Availability Heuristic, and Pessimism Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 73 hits. Analysis detected 547 faulty-reasoning hits from 73 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 98.6% and a BS Rank of 99% (339 of 19,502 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 98.30% of the article peer group.
American political history is the story of a people overthrowing a hereditary nobility and then doing more or less everything they can to re-create it.
In our short existence we’ve had two sets of father-and-son presidents, another set who were related by blood and marriage, and we might well be on our third or fourth Kennedy in the White House if not for a series of murders, accidents, and cover-ups.
Confirmation Bias
34.2%Confirmation Bias
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34.2%AuthorNick Catoggio
4.9%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Availability Heuristic
61.6%Availability Heuristic
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61.6%AuthorNick Catoggio
4.7%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Representativeness Heuristic
34.2%Representativeness Heuristic
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34.2%AuthorNick Catoggio
0.9%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Framing Effect
65.8%Framing Effect
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65.8%AuthorNick Catoggio
3.6%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
2.5%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0.6%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Pessimism Bias
61.6%Pessimism Bias
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61.6%AuthorNick Catoggio
2.8%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Negativity Bias
4.1%Negativity Bias
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4.1%AuthorNick Catoggio
10.9%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
1.3%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0.9%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Recency Bias
61.6%Recency Bias
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61.6%AuthorNick Catoggio
1.6%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Primacy Effect
34.2%Primacy Effect
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34.2%AuthorNick Catoggio
0.9%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
3.4%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0.5%PublicationThe Dispatch
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False Dilemma
61.6%False Dilemma
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61.6%AuthorNick Catoggio
1.6%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Slippery Slope
61.6%Slippery Slope
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61.6%AuthorNick Catoggio
1.6%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Hasty Generalization
34.2%Hasty Generalization
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34.2%AuthorNick Catoggio
7.2%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
2.1%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
61.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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61.6%AuthorNick Catoggio
3.1%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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Composition/Division
34.2%Composition/Division
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34.2%AuthorNick Catoggio
0.9%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
2.2%PublicationThe Dispatch
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
4.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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4.1%AuthorNick Catoggio
1.1%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
0.6%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
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Biased Writer Voice
100%Biased Writer Voice
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100%AuthorNick Catoggio
14.7%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Indoctrination
34.2%Indoctrination
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34.2%AuthorNick Catoggio
0.9%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
2.4%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
1%PublicationThe Dispatch
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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0%AuthorNick Catoggio
14.9%PublicationThe Dispatch
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73 words analyzed.
Analysis
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