Daily Kos88%
You should see what we’re doing to immigrants 44%
By David Horsey95%
7/15/2026, 11:59:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Loss Aversion, Framing Effect, and Negativity Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 69.5% saturation with 57 hits. Analysis detected 201 faulty-reasoning hits from 82 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 47% and a BS Rank of 44% (9,171 of 16,254 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 56.40% of the article peer group.
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Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
24.4%Framing Effect
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24.4%AuthorDavid Horsey
13.3%PublicationDaily Kos
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Loss Aversion
31.7%Loss Aversion
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31.7%AuthorDavid Horsey
12.5%PublicationDaily Kos
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0.7%PublicationDaily Kos
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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1.8%PublicationDaily Kos
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorDavid Horsey
6.8%PublicationDaily Kos
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Negativity Bias
24.4%Negativity Bias
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24.4%AuthorDavid Horsey
11.6%PublicationDaily Kos
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorDavid Horsey
3.8%PublicationDaily Kos
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
14.6%In-Group Bias
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14.6%AuthorDavid Horsey
16.4%PublicationDaily Kos
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorDavid Horsey
1.6%PublicationDaily Kos
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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3%PublicationDaily Kos
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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1.8%PublicationDaily Kos
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0.3%PublicationDaily Kos
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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3.1%PublicationDaily Kos
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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0.7%PublicationDaily Kos
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False Dilemma
14.6%False Dilemma
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14.6%AuthorDavid Horsey
7.8%PublicationDaily Kos
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
14.6%Hasty Generalization
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14.6%AuthorDavid Horsey
3.9%PublicationDaily Kos
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
17.1%Appeal to Emotion
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28.8%PublicationDaily Kos
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Begging the Question
9.8%Begging the Question
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9.8%AuthorDavid Horsey
3.4%PublicationDaily Kos
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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
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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
24.4%Biased Writer Voice
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22.4%PublicationDaily Kos
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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
69.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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69.5%AuthorDavid Horsey
29.2%PublicationDaily Kos
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82 words analyzed.
Analysis
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