L.A. TACO86%
Sunday Taquitos #7: Raid at Santa’s Workshop82%
By Ivan Ehlers0%
12/21/2025, 8:30:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Halo Effect, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 50% saturation with 6 hits. Analysis detected 42 faulty-reasoning hits from 12 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 75% and a BS Rank of 82% (3,027 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 82.00% of the article peer group.
Raid at Santa’s workshop!
Sunday Taquitos!
Art by Ivan Ehlers.
Ivan Ehlers
Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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Anchoring Bias
33.3%Anchoring Bias
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33.3%AuthorIvan Ehlers
7.1%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Availability Heuristic
50%Availability Heuristic
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50%AuthorIvan Ehlers
42.9%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
7.1%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
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Framing Effect
50%Framing Effect
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50%AuthorIvan Ehlers
35.7%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Halo Effect
50%Halo Effect
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50%AuthorIvan Ehlers
50%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Negativity Bias
33.3%Negativity Bias
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33.3%AuthorIvan Ehlers
14.3%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Optimism Bias
16.7%Optimism Bias
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16.7%AuthorIvan Ehlers
10.7%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
25%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Recency Bias
16.7%Recency Bias
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16.7%AuthorIvan Ehlers
7.1%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
50%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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50%AuthorIvan Ehlers
17.9%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Appeal to Authority
50%Appeal to Authority
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50%AuthorIvan Ehlers
46.4%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
28.6%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
0%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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3.6%PublicationL.A. TACO
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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
0%Composition/Division
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
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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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7.1%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Hasty Generalization
0%Hasty Generalization
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
3.6%PublicationL.A. TACO
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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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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
17.9%PublicationL.A. TACO
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorIvan Ehlers
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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12 words analyzed.
Analysis
Hover over highlighted words in the article to view the associated bias or fallacy analysis.