BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 28.6% saturation with 24 hits. Analysis detected 48 faulty-reasoning hits from 84 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 21.4% and a BS Rank of 6% (15,940 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 94.80% of the article peer group.
Mary McNamara is a culture columnist and critic for the Los Angeles Times.
Previously she was assistant managing editor for arts and entertainment following a 12-year stint as television critic and senior culture editor.
A Pulitzer Prize winner in 2015 and finalist for criticism in 2013 and 2014, she has won various awards for criticism and feature writing.
She is the author of the Hollywood mysteries “Oscar Season” and “The Starlet.”
She lives in La Crescenta with her husband and two dogs.
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
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
28.6%Halo Effect
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28.6%AuthorMary McNamara
21.4%PublicationDaily Pilot
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%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
28.6%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%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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84 words analyzed.
Analysis
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