Cascade PBS88%
Violence surges in West Bank as settlers escalate attacks 93%
By Cascade PBS Staff70%
7/30/2026, 5:01:05 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Confirmation Bias, and Appeal to Authority, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 78.3% saturation with 54 hits. Analysis detected 273 faulty-reasoning hits from 69 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 87% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,749 of 22,405 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 92.20% of the article peer group.
Violence surged in the West Bank this past weekend when Palestinians say Israeli settlers burned two mosques following deadly clashes.
The UN accuses Israeli settlers of increasing their attacks and footprint in the West Bank, the land that Palestinians hope will be their future state.
Israel says it is Palestinians committing the violence.
Producer Karl Bostic and Nick Schifrin report.
Confirmation Bias
36.2%Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
29%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
49.3%Framing Effect
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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
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
78.3%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
11.6%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
11.6%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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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
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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
36.2%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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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
36.2%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
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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69 words analyzed.
Analysis
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