KUOW72%
BONUS: The things we do for love with Sonora Jha 28%
By Katie Campbell0%
5/24/2026, 7:45:02 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Pessimism Bias, and Representativeness Heuristic, with Primacy Effect as the most egregious example at 31.4% saturation with 54 hits. Analysis detected 214 faulty-reasoning hits from 172 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 38.7% and a BS Rank of 28% (12,201 of 16,813 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 72.60% of the article peer group.
Finding love can be so weird these days, which is why the main character in Seattle author Sonora Jha’s new novel decides to take a big swing to find the right man for her.
She holds a swayamvar.
It’s an ancient Indian custom in which suitors competed in a feat of wills and strength to win a beautiful princess’s hand in marriage.
But the woman in the novel Intemperance is not a young princess looking for her first love.
She’s a twice-divorced professor of feminist theory in her 50s who lives on a rad houseboat in present-day Seattle.
The KUOW Book Club read Sonora’s novel in May.
KUOW’s Katie Campbell sat down with her on May 21 in front of a live audience at the Seattle Central Library to talk about love, aging, and the kinds of feats Sonora would require at her swayamvar.
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Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
19.8%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
14%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
5.8%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
4.1%Loss Aversion
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4.1%AuthorKatie Campbell
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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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Pessimism Bias
19.8%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
4.1%Negativity Bias
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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
11%Halo Effect
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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
31.4%Primacy Effect
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31.4%AuthorKatie Campbell
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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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
4.1%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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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
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Anecdotal
0%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
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%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
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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172 words analyzed.
Analysis
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