Why most politicians are not calling for data center bans despite voters’ anger 92%
By Liz Goodwin0% Riley Beggin0%
6/7/2026, 3:00:00 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Availability Heuristic, and Appeal to Emotion, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 77.3% saturation with 92 hits. Analysis detected 355 faulty-reasoning hits from 119 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 85.9% and a BS Rank of 92% (1,886 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 91.40% of the article peer group.
HILLIARD, OHIO — Annette Singh and Annie Cannelongo will vote in November in this midterm battleground with one issue at the top of their minds: data centers.
The full-time moms say their fury over the massive computer-filled warehouses has consumed them ever since Amazon Web Services broke ground on a data center site that stretches from the lush playground their kids use close to the elementary school that Singh’s child attends.
Singh can no longer see deer peeking out from the trees and farmland that used to abut the park, and Cannelongo, her friend, laments that she can now hear the roaring highway from her house.
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
37%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Framing Effect
10.9%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
29.4%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
77.3%Negativity Bias
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77.3%AuthorLiz Goodwin
25.4%PublicationThe Washington Post
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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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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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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
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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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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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Personal Incredulity
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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119 words analyzed.
Analysis
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