Rumble Strip ⁠40%

By Erica Heilman⁠0%

8/9/2026, 6:19:19 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, and In-Group Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 96.6% saturation with 57 hits. Analysis detected 219 faulty-reasoning hits from 59 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 37.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠40% (18,628 of 30,584 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 60.90% of the article peer group.

Rumble Strip invites listeners to slow down for good conversation that takes its time. 
Host Erica Heilman invites herself into people's homes to find out what they know, hate, love, what they’re afraid of, and what makes them more like you than you'd realized. 
Rumble Strip is produced independently and distributed on the radio by Vermont Public. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 1.4%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.4%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 1.5%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 23.7%Erica Heilman: 11.9%Vermont Public: 3.8%Framing Effect23.7%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.3%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 2.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.8%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 2.5%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 50.8%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.5%In-Group Bias50.8%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 25.4%Vermont Public: 0.9%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.1%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 1.5%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 1.7%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.3%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 50.8%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 1.2%Hasty Generalization50.8%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.2%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 74.6%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 2.7%Appeal to Emotion74.6%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.2%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 1.0%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.4%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.4%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 96.6%Erica Heilman: 37.3%Vermont Public: 2.3%Biased Writer Voice96.6%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 1.4%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 74.6%Erica Heilman: 0.0%Vermont Public: 6.6%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…74.6%

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