How to make Los Angeles government work for my community 85%

By Iris Lee0% Vanessa Martinez0% Joy Park0% Alex Tatusian0% Matthew Ballinger0% Hanna Sender0% Phi Do0%

10/18/2022, 2:00:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, Biased Writer Voice, and Indoctrination, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 46.3% saturation with 44 hits. Analysis detected 235 faulty-reasoning hits from 95 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 77.4% and a BS Rank of 85% (2,665 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 84.20% of the article peer group.

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Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
21.1%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
46.3%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
17.9%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
0%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
14.7%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
22.1%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
13.7%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
17.9%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
28.4%
Indoctrination
28.4%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
36.8%

95 words analyzed.

Analysis

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