WPLN News14%
NashVillager Podcast: Goodbye Hollywood, hello Nashville? 16%
By Nina Cardona11%
7/20/2026, 12:03:10 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Framing Effect, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 30% saturation with 24 hits. Analysis detected 152 faulty-reasoning hits from 80 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 32.5% and a BS Rank of 16% (16,748 of 19,908 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 84.10% of the article peer group.
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Credits:
This is a production of Nashville Public Radio.
Host/producer: Nina Cardona
Editor: LaTonya Turner
Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, Megan Jones and the staff of WPLN and WNXP
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
20%Availability Heuristic
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20%AuthorNina Cardona
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorNina Cardona
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
17.5%Framing Effect
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17.5%AuthorNina Cardona
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
10%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
7.5%Pessimism Bias
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7.5%AuthorNina Cardona
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Negativity Bias
12.5%Negativity Bias
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12.5%AuthorNina Cardona
9.9%PublicationWPLN
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
12.5%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
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Halo Effect
10%Halo Effect
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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
7.5%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
30%Appeal to Authority
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30%AuthorNina Cardona
2.7%PublicationWPLN
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False Dilemma
7.5%False Dilemma
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7.5%AuthorNina Cardona
2.4%PublicationWPLN
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
0%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
12.5%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%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
12.5%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
12.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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80 words analyzed.
Analysis
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