That’s a Wrap on the 2026 Legislative Session83%

3/10/2026, 12:29:36 PM

Topics: Radiowest

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 79.7% saturation with 114 hits. Analysis detected 503 faulty-reasoning hits from 143 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75.8% and a BS Rank of 83% (2,865 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 83.00% of the article peer group.

Lawmakers passed a $31 million budget late on Friday, and over the course of the session, introduced more than a thousand bills. 
Still, some say this year’s round of lawmaking was a relatively stately affair compared to recent sessions. 
That doesn’t mean there aren’t important bills to talk about, though  like the newly expanded Utah Supreme Court, jumping from five justices to seven. 
Officials also banned cellphones during school hours. 
There was a modest tax cut, as well as new restrictions on puberty blockers for minors. 
Meanwhile, Harvey Milk Boulevard won’t be renamed after the late Charlie Kirk. 
Which gets us to Representative Trevor Lee, who was behind that push. 
Two of our guests say that, if you wanted to pick something to characterize this year’s session, Lee’s extreme rhetoric and disregard for process turning off his fellow lawmakers could be it. 
Confirmation Bias
22.4%
Anchoring Bias
20.3%
Availability Heuristic
17.5%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
79.7%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
11.9%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
42%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
22.4%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
22.4%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
34.3%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
22.4%
Red Herring
22.4%
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)
34.3%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

143 words analyzed.

Analysis

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