BS Summary: This article contains 5 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Recency Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 61 hits. Analysis detected 214 faulty-reasoning hits from 61 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 93.8% and a BS Rank of 96% (732 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 95.70% of the article peer group.
Communities in Washington are beginning their recovery efforts after flooding and landslides, Governor Bob Ferguson is joining Democrats in proposing an income tax on millionaires, and people who have season passes for the Stevens Pass ski resort are angry that the resort is not offering refunds.
It’s our daily roundup of top stories from the KUOW newsroom, with host Zaki Hamid.
Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0%PublicationKUOW
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.5%PublicationKUOW
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Availability Heuristic
75.4%Availability Heuristic
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75.4%AuthorVaughan Jones
6.4%PublicationKUOW
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0%PublicationKUOW
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Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
2.6%PublicationKUOW
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0%PublicationKUOW
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Framing Effect
100%Framing Effect
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100%AuthorVaughan Jones
9.6%PublicationKUOW
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.1%PublicationKUOW
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
7.4%PublicationKUOW
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.1%PublicationKUOW
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0%PublicationKUOW
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
3.1%PublicationKUOW
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
2.4%PublicationKUOW
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Negativity Bias
75.4%Negativity Bias
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75.4%AuthorVaughan Jones
7.5%PublicationKUOW
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
7%PublicationKUOW
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.8%PublicationKUOW
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
2.5%PublicationKUOW
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
3.9%PublicationKUOW
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.6%PublicationKUOW
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Recency Bias
75.4%Recency Bias
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75.4%AuthorVaughan Jones
1.7%PublicationKUOW
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
1.5%PublicationKUOW
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Self-Serving Bias
24.6%Self-Serving Bias
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24.6%AuthorVaughan Jones
1.1%PublicationKUOW
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
1.5%PublicationKUOW
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.3%PublicationKUOW
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0%PublicationKUOW
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
1%PublicationKUOW
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
5.8%PublicationKUOW
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
10.8%PublicationKUOW
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
3.8%PublicationKUOW
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.3%PublicationKUOW
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
2.2%PublicationKUOW
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.5%PublicationKUOW
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.1%PublicationKUOW
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.5%PublicationKUOW
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0%PublicationKUOW
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
1.1%PublicationKUOW
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0%PublicationKUOW
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0%PublicationKUOW
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
7.7%PublicationKUOW
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.2%PublicationKUOW
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.1%PublicationKUOW
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
0.2%PublicationKUOW
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
1.8%PublicationKUOW
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
1%PublicationKUOW
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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0%AuthorVaughan Jones
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0.3%PublicationKUOW
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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61 words analyzed.
Analysis
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