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BS Summary: This article contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Loss Aversion, and Anchoring Bias, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 89.7% saturation with 271 hits. Analysis detected 793 faulty-reasoning hits from 302 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 76% and a BS Rank of 88% (3,186 of 26,528 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 88.00% of the article peer group.

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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Mashable: 2.0%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 17.9%Mashable: 1.7%Anchoring Bias17.9%This article: 16.2%Mashable: 2.7%Availability Heuristic16.2%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 6.3%Mashable: 2.4%Overconfidence Bias6.3%This article: 12.9%Mashable: 4.7%Framing Effect12.9%This article: 22.2%Mashable: 1.3%Loss Aversion22.2%This article: 3.0%Mashable: 0.5%Status Quo Bias3.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 5.3%Mashable: 3.7%Optimism Bias5.3%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 1.0%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 7.0%Mashable: 4.7%Negativity Bias7.0%This article: 12.9%Mashable: 0.5%Self-Serving Bias12.9%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 9.3%Mashable: 0.6%In-Group Bias9.3%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 15.6%Mashable: 3.3%Halo Effect15.6%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 1.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 2.8%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 23.2%Mashable: 4.6%Hasty Generalization23.2%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 1.0%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 12.9%Mashable: 2.8%Appeal to Emotion12.9%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 1.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 2.1%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 2.0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 1.1%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.6%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 8.7%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 8.3%Mashable: 1.9%Indoctrination8.3%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Mashable: 0.1%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 89.7%Mashable: 15.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…89.7%

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