The Stranger85%
The Stranger’s Noise Complaint: Episode Two 79%
By Stranger Staff96%
7/17/2026, 8:05:28 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Appeal to Authority, and Availability Heuristic, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 46.1% saturation with 70 hits. Analysis detected 267 faulty-reasoning hits from 152 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 71.1% and a BS Rank of 79% (4,267 of 19,891 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 78.60% of the article peer group.
Welcome to Noise Complaint, The Stranger‘s new audio and video music podcast featuring live performances right here at The Stranger HQ.
Streamed live and released every other Friday, we invite a great band, musician, or wonderfully weird act to perform.
Tune in, discover something new, and support art in your city.
On Apple, you can subscribe to the video podcast here.
On Spotify, here.
This week’s episode is Eleni Govetas Kompania.
Eleni Govetas Kompania is a band composed of four best friends who blend the sounds of traditional Greek folk with psychedelic surf.
Eleni and her brother Bobby, who plays bass in the band, grew up with traditional Greek music from their parents, who are also musicians.
Eleni, a multi-instrumentalist who plays violin, saxophone, zurna, oud, percussion, and more, also collaborates and tours with other bands like the Brudi Brothers.
Find Eleni Govetas Kompania at Bandcamp.
Confirmation Bias
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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
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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
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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
43.4%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
15.8%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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152 words analyzed.
Analysis
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