What the Kansas Legislature did — and didn't do — this session 13%
By Nomin Ujiyediin0% Byron J. Love0%
4/22/2026, 4:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Framing Effect, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 33.1% saturation with 41 hits. Analysis detected 162 faulty-reasoning hits from 124 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 29.8% and a BS Rank of 13% (14,673 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 87.30% of the article peer group.
Property taxes dominated the conversation in this year's Kansas legislative session — but infighting mean that lawmakers left without delivering any of their promised reforms.
However, the GOP-dominated legislature managed to pass some big bills, sometimes over the veto of Gov.
Laura Kelly.
Nomin Ujiyediin spoke with Kansas Public Radio's Statehouse Bureau Chief, Zach Boblitt, about the session.
Contact the show at news@kcur.org.
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Confirmation Bias
12.9%Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
33.1%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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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Straw Man
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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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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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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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No True Scotsman
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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124 words analyzed.
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