The holidays are a great time for cheap Costco wine93%
By Patricia Murphy0%
12/24/2025, 1:45:01 PM
Topics: Podcasts, Seattle Eats
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Anchoring Bias, Halo Effect, and Appeal to Authority, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 75.9% saturation with 60 hits. Analysis detected 242 faulty-reasoning hits from 79 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 89% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,219 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 92.80% of the article peer group.
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The holidays are here — the season for cookies, roasts, seafood… and wine.
And if you want the best deals on good wine… Seattle Times food critic, Tan Vinh says… head to Costco.
On the latest episode of Seattle Eats, Tan sat down with Seattle Times politics reporter David Gutman to taste-test Costco’s best wines that are 20 dollars or less.
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Actor-Observer Bias
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Anchoring Bias
60.8%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
16.5%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
75.9%Framing Effect
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75.9%AuthorPatricia Murphy
9.4%PublicationKUOW
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Halo Effect
60.8%Halo Effect
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60.8%AuthorPatricia Murphy
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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
0%Loss Aversion
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Negativity Bias
0%Negativity Bias
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Optimism Bias
15.2%Optimism Bias
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15.2%AuthorPatricia Murphy
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Recency Bias
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Representativeness Heuristic
16.5%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
60.8%Appeal to Authority
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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Appeal to Nature
0%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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79 words analyzed.
Analysis
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