Friday Evening Headlines73%
By Paige Browning0% Andy Hurst0%
12/20/2025, 12:59:18 AM
Topics: Daily Headlines, Seattle Now
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, In-Group Bias, and Loss Aversion, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 66% saturation with 62 hits. Analysis detected 203 faulty-reasoning hits from 94 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 66.2% and a BS Rank of 73% (4,558 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 72.90% of the article peer group.
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
41.5%Availability Heuristic
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41.5%AuthorPaige Browning
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Framing Effect
66%Framing Effect
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66%AuthorPaige Browning
7.5%PublicationKUOW
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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In-Group Bias
33%In-Group Bias
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33%AuthorPaige Browning
3.4%PublicationKUOW
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Loss Aversion
24.5%Loss Aversion
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24.5%AuthorPaige Browning
7.5%PublicationKUOW
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Negativity Bias
0%Negativity Bias
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0%AuthorPaige Browning
4.6%PublicationKUOW
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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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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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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Appeal to Authority
16%Appeal to Authority
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16%AuthorPaige Browning
0.6%PublicationKUOW
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Appeal to Emotion
24.5%Appeal to Emotion
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24.5%AuthorPaige Browning
9.4%PublicationKUOW
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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False Dilemma
10.6%False Dilemma
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Straw Man
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Tu Quoque
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94 words analyzed.
Analysis
Hover over highlighted words in the article to view the associated bias or fallacy analysis.