BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 73.6% saturation with 128 hits. Analysis detected 835 faulty-reasoning hits from 174 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 90.8% and a BS Rank of 94% (1,036 of 16,550 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 93.70% of the article peer group.
New York, birthplace of the power grid, the transistor’s commercial triumph, and the modern corporation, just became the first state in America to ban the future for at least a year.
This week, Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order imposing a moratorium on new data centers.
She has sold the policy as a prudent pause to protect electricity bills, water, and the grid.
“As data-center development threatens to hike up utility bills, deplete our natural resources, and create uncertainty for New Yorkers, it’s my responsibility to take action and lead,” she said Tuesday.
But strip away the press-release piety and you find something simpler, sadder, and short-sighted: pure political posturing.
Why sign this order now?
Because the political winds shifted and Albany licked its finger.
A recent Siena poll found that 46 percent of voters, squeezed by electric bills up nearly 68 percent since 2019, support a moratorium on data-center construction, and Hochul, facing a reelection battle this year, clearly thinks her anti-data-center stance is good politics.
Confirmation Bias
19.5%Confirmation Bias
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19.5%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
24.1%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
5.7%Hindsight Bias
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5.7%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
38.5%Framing Effect
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38.5%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
27.6%Pessimism Bias
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27.6%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Negativity Bias
37.4%Negativity Bias
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37.4%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Self-Serving Bias
24.1%Self-Serving Bias
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24.1%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Fundamental Attribution Error
9.8%Fundamental Attribution Error
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9.8%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
24.1%Recency Bias
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24.1%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
19.5%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
9.8%False Dilemma
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9.8%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
24.1%Bandwagon
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24.1%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Appeal to Emotion
17.2%Appeal to Emotion
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17.2%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Begging the Question
17.2%Begging the Question
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17.2%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
29.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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29.9%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
2.9%Burden of Proof
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2.9%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
21.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
17.2%Unattributed Quote
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17.2%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Quote-first Misdirection
17.2%Quote-first Misdirection
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17.2%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Biased Writer Voice
73.6%Biased Writer Voice
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73.6%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Indoctrination
9.8%Indoctrination
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9.8%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
9.2%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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9.2%AuthorJosh Wolfe
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174 words analyzed.
Analysis
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