BS Summary: This article contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Availability Heuristic, and Post Hoc (False Cause), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 29.7% saturation with 108 hits. Analysis detected 466 faulty-reasoning hits from 364 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 44.2% and a BS Rank of 49% (13,136 of 25,563 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 51.40% of the article peer group.

ICE ambushing travelers at San Francisco International Airport 
A recent ICE arrest at SFO is just the tip of the iceberg for ramped-up enforcement. 
World's first motel could become older folks home on Central Coast 
The historic motel is smack in the middle of the drive from San Francisco to LA. 
Dolly Parton once ran a restaurant in Hawaii. 
It was a disaster. 
Dockside Plantation only lasted a little over a year. 
Crystal Cove's beloved Beachcomber restaurant sits in a cottage 'time forgot' 
A piece of California coastal history is the home of a cherished restaurant. 
Multiple-car crash, brush fire spur standstill on Highway 101 in North Bay 
A driver crashed into a power pole, causing an outage that affected half of Novato. 
At California's historic El Adobe, eat Nixon's favorite dinner in a jail cell 
It has legends of bandits and ghosts, and a very real presidential legacy. 
San Francisco suing to stop allegedly 'brazen hotel booking scam' 
One wrong click on a misleading URL has tricked travelers in California for years. 
Authorities ID 32-year-old man who drowned in Lake Tahoe 
The man was pronounced deceased at Sand Harbor State Park. 
Lakefront Tahoe City landmark up for foreclosure auction 
"That building has taken all those big winters. 
It's a good one." 
San Diego closed 13 public restrooms. 
One official is fighting to reopen them. 
The closures were part of the city's attempt to reduce the $118 million budget deficit. 
Disneyland's inexpensive new ticket sold out within days. 
Was it worth it? 
A few minutes before midnight, disaster has struck at the Happiest Place on Earth. 
The biggest name in Vegas makes a $200M bet on Lake Tahoe 
With Vegas stumbling, Caesars Republic brings the glamour back to Lake Tahoe. 
6 teens now arrested on suspicion of attacking Calif. family at resort on Maui 
The family alleges a group of young people carried out the attack. 
SFO, LAX fight for Pacific flights to the Philippines 
Delta and United ramp up LAX vs. 
SFO's battle for transpacific passengers. 
Bay Area neighbors hated airport noise. 
Then came the billionaires. 
The Bohemian Grove, a Bay Area party for billionaires, briefly quieted the airport. 
Confirmation Bias
7.1%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
10.2%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
3.6%
Loss Aversion
1.6%
Status Quo Bias
3.3%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
3.8%
Negativity Bias
29.7%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
4.1%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
1.6%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
1.6%
Halo Effect
4.7%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
4.4%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
3.3%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
3.8%
Red Herring
1.1%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
13.7%
Begging the Question
2.7%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
9.1%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
5.8%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
7.7%
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
2.7%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
2.2%

364 words analyzed.

Analysis

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