BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Appeal to Authority, and Appeal to Emotion, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 81.4% saturation with 96 hits. Analysis detected 322 faulty-reasoning hits from 118 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 24.4% and a BS Rank of 8% (15,581 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 92.70% of the article peer group.
Gustavo Arellano is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, covering Southern California everything and a bunch of the West and beyond.
He was a finalist for the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in Commentary and the Mike Royko Award for Commentary and Column Writing and was part of the team that won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in Breaking News.
Arellano previously worked at OC Weekly, where he was an investigative reporter for 15 years and editor for six, wrote a column called ¡Ask a Mexican!
and is the author of “Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.”
He’s the child of two Mexican immigrants, one of whom came to this country in the trunk of a Chevy.
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0.4%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
1.2%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Framing Effect
10.2%Framing Effect
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10.2%AuthorGustavo Arellano
3.9%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0.3%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Negativity Bias
16.9%Negativity Bias
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16.9%AuthorGustavo Arellano
1.3%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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In-Group Bias
16.9%In-Group Bias
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16.9%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0.9%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Halo Effect
81.4%Halo Effect
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81.4%AuthorGustavo Arellano
3.7%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
1.4%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0.5%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Primacy Effect
18.6%Primacy Effect
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18.6%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0.4%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
30.5%Appeal to Authority
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30.5%AuthorGustavo Arellano
3.5%PublicationDaily Pilot
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
1.3%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0.5%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
1.6%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Appeal to Emotion
27.1%Appeal to Emotion
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27.1%AuthorGustavo Arellano
2.2%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0.9%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
2.4%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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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
16.9%Anecdotal
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16.9%AuthorGustavo Arellano
1.1%PublicationDaily Pilot
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
18.6%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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18.6%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0.4%PublicationDaily Pilot
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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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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0.7%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
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Biased Writer Voice
35.6%Biased Writer Voice
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35.6%AuthorGustavo Arellano
4.4%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
4.9%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
1.3%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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0%AuthorGustavo Arellano
0%PublicationDaily Pilot
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118 words analyzed.
Analysis
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