BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 45.5% saturation with 25 hits. Analysis detected 50 faulty-reasoning hits from 55 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 23.6% and a BS Rank of 7% (17,912 of 19,141 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 93.60% of the article peer group.
Financial Times Whitehall Editor Lucy Fisher on Britain's new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham.
Former British National Security Adviser Peter Ricketts discusses how Burnham might approach international challenges.
Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk analyzes Zelensky's decision to fire popular defense minister, Mykhailo Fedorov.
Former Police Officer Seth Stoughton on the increase in ICE violence.
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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6.2%PublicationCascade PBS
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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3.1%PublicationCascade PBS
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
20%Negativity Bias
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20%AuthorCascade PBS Staff
1.9%PublicationCascade PBS
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
25.5%Halo Effect
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25.5%AuthorCascade PBS Staff
29%PublicationCascade PBS
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
45.5%Appeal to Authority
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45.5%AuthorCascade PBS Staff
11.9%PublicationCascade PBS
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
0%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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55 words analyzed.
Analysis
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