Photos: It's (finally) snowing in Seattle89%
By KUOW Staff0%
3/13/2026, 11:02:52 PM
Topics: Pacific Northwest Weather, Snowfall
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Hindsight Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Anchoring Bias as the most egregious example at 62.7% saturation with 32 hits. Analysis detected 185 faulty-reasoning hits from 51 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.1% and a BS Rank of 89% (2,010 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.10% of the article peer group.
After the warmest December on record in Washington state, coupled with record-level rain and flooding, snow finally reached the central Puget Sound region on Friday — including in Seattle, Everett, and Bremerton.
The snow is expected to turn to rain in most locations under 500 feet in elevation by Friday evening.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
62.7%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
62.7%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
62.7%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
37.3%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
37.3%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
62.7%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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No True Scotsman
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Personal Incredulity
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Genetic Fallacy
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Biased Writer Voice
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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51 words analyzed.
Analysis
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