BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Biased Writer Voice, and Primacy Effect, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 65.9% saturation with 114 hits. Analysis detected 498 faulty-reasoning hits from 173 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 90.2% and a BS Rank of 94% (1,102 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 93.50% of the article peer group.
Bill Plaschke, an L.A.
Times Sports columnist since 1996, is a member of the National Sports Media Hall of Fame and California Sports Hall of Fame.
He has been named national Sports Columnist of the Year nine times by the Associated Press, and twice by the Society of Professional Journalists and National Headliner Awards.
He is the author of six books, including a collection of his columns entitled “Plaschke: Good Sports, Spoilsports, Foul Balls and Oddballs.”
Plaschke was also a panelist on the popular ESPN daily talk show, “Around the Horn.”
He is in the national Big Brothers/Big Sisters Alumni Hall of Fame and has been named Man of the Year by the Los Angeles Big Brothers/Big Sisters as well as receiving a Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women’s Law Center.
Plaschke has appeared in a movie (“Ali”), a dramatic HBO series (“Luck”) and, in a crowning cultural moment he still does not quite understand, his name can be found in a rap song “Females Welcome” by Asher Roth.
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
5.1%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
1.2%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Availability Heuristic
8.7%Availability Heuristic
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8.7%AuthorBill Plaschke
2.6%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0.1%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
3.3%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
2.7%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Framing Effect
8.7%Framing Effect
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8.7%AuthorBill Plaschke
2.4%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
OverallThis article
0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0.3%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
1.7%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
12.8%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
2.1%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Negativity Bias
22%Negativity Bias
OverallThis article
22%AuthorBill Plaschke
7.2%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
1.6%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
3.2%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
OverallThis article
0%AuthorBill Plaschke
1.1%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0.1%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Halo Effect
65.9%Halo Effect
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65.9%AuthorBill Plaschke
20.8%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
3.5%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
2.2%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Primacy Effect
38.2%Primacy Effect
OverallThis article
38.2%AuthorBill Plaschke
2.9%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Appeal to Authority
53.2%Appeal to Authority
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53.2%AuthorBill Plaschke
3.9%PublicationDaily Pilot
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
OverallThis article
0%AuthorBill Plaschke
1.7%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
2.8%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
OverallThis article
0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
6.2%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0.3%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
6.7%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
7.9%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0.6%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Anecdotal
22%Anecdotal
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22%AuthorBill Plaschke
1.3%PublicationDaily Pilot
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
1.7%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0.2%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Biased Writer Voice
47.4%Biased Writer Voice
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47.4%AuthorBill Plaschke
60.2%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
4.2%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
22%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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22%AuthorBill Plaschke
0.7%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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0%AuthorBill Plaschke
0.7%PublicationDaily Pilot
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173 words analyzed.
Analysis
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