Sugar, spice and everything dais60%
By Libby Denkmann0% Scott Greenstone0% Catharine Smith0% Hans Anderson0% Sarah Leibovitz0%
12/23/2025, 9:23:31 PM
Topics: Politics, Sound Politics
BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including In-Group Bias, Appeal to Authority, and Hindsight Bias, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 30.8% saturation with 16 hits. Analysis detected 93 faulty-reasoning hits from 52 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 55.9% and a BS Rank of 60% (6,866 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 59.20% of the article peer group.
Outgoing Seattle City Council President Sara Nelson reflects on her tenure as she leaves office.
Sound Politics is a production of KUOW in Seattle, a proud member of the NPR Network.
Our editor is Catharine Smith.
Our producers are Sarah Leibovitz and Hans Anderson.
Our hosts are Libby Denkmann and Scott Greenstone.
Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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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
0%Framing Effect
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Halo Effect
30.8%Halo Effect
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30.8%AuthorLibby Denkmann
9.9%PublicationKUOW
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Hindsight Bias
28.8%Hindsight Bias
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28.8%AuthorLibby Denkmann
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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In-Group Bias
30.8%In-Group Bias
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30.8%AuthorLibby Denkmann
6.7%PublicationKUOW
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorLibby Denkmann
2.1%PublicationKUOW
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Negativity Bias
0%Negativity Bias
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8.6%PublicationKUOW
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Optimism Bias
28.8%Optimism Bias
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28.8%AuthorLibby Denkmann
6.4%PublicationKUOW
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorLibby Denkmann
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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2.3%PublicationKUOW
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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
28.8%Self-Serving Bias
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28.8%AuthorLibby Denkmann
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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)
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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Appeal to Authority
30.8%Appeal to Authority
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30.8%AuthorLibby Denkmann
5.7%PublicationKUOW
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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8.7%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
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False Dilemma
0%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
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Straw Man
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Tu Quoque
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52 words analyzed.
Analysis
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