Week in Review: flooding, the budget, and Rad Power Bikes96%
By Bill Radke0% Kevin Kniestedt0%
12/19/2025, 9:45:00 PM
Keywords: Flooding, State Budget, Rad Power Bikes, Bill Radke, Joni Balter, Mike Lewis, Reuven Carlyle
BS Summary: This article contains 2 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 100% saturation with 26 hits. Analysis detected 52 faulty-reasoning hits from 26 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 93.8% and a BS Rank of 96% (733 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 95.60% of the article peer group.
Host Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with political analyst and contributing columnist Joni Balter, Geekwire contributing editor Mike Lewis, and Earth Finance founder Reuven Carlyle.
Actor-Observer Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Confirmation Bias
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Framing Effect
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Halo Effect
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Hindsight Bias
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Horn Effect
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In-Group Bias
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Loss Aversion
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Negativity Bias
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Optimism Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Recency Bias
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Self-Serving Bias
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Ad Hominem
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Anecdotal
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Appeal to Authority
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Appeal to Emotion
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Appeal to Nature
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Bandwagon
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Begging the Question
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Burden of Proof
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Circular Reasoning
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Composition/Division
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False Dilemma
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Genetic Fallacy
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Hasty Generalization
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Middle Ground
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No True Scotsman
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Personal Incredulity
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Red Herring
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Slippery Slope
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Special Pleading
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Straw Man
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Tu Quoque
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26 words analyzed.
Analysis
Hover over highlighted words in the article to view the associated bias or fallacy analysis.