BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, In-Group Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 26 hits. Analysis detected 138 faulty-reasoning hits from 26 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 93.8% and a BS Rank of 96% (709 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 95.80% of the article peer group.
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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Anchoring Bias
34.6%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
65.4%Availability Heuristic
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Confirmation Bias
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Framing Effect
100%Framing Effect
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Halo Effect
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Hindsight Bias
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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In-Group Bias
65.4%In-Group Bias
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Loss Aversion
34.6%Loss Aversion
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Negativity Bias
0%Negativity Bias
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Optimism Bias
65.4%Optimism Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Recency Bias
34.6%Recency Bias
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Ad Hominem
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Anecdotal
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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Appeal to Emotion
65.4%Appeal to Emotion
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Bandwagon
65.4%Bandwagon
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Begging the Question
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Burden of Proof
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Circular Reasoning
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Composition/Division
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False Dilemma
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Genetic Fallacy
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Hasty Generalization
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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No True Scotsman
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Red Herring
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Slippery Slope
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Special Pleading
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Straw Man
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Tu Quoque
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26 words analyzed.
Analysis
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