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
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
21.1%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
46.3%Framing Effect
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46.3%AuthorIris Lee
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
17.9%Optimism Bias
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17.9%AuthorIris Lee
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Pessimism Bias
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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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In-Group Bias
14.7%In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
22.1%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
13.7%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
17.9%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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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
28.4%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
28.4%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
36.8%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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95 words analyzed.
Analysis
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