BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Personal Incredulity, Hasty Generalization, and Anchoring Bias, with Optimism Bias as the most egregious example at 16.9% saturation with 29 hits. Analysis detected 129 faulty-reasoning hits from 172 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 25.6% and a BS Rank of 10% (20,555 of 22,830 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 90.00% of the article peer group.
If your phone isn't working, it's not just you: T-Mobile is down.
The outage appears relatively recent: According to Downdetector, the first reports trickled in at 3:53 p.m.
ET, and have since exploded.
As of this article, over 60,000 users have reported issues with T-Mobile.
Over on r/tmobile, hundreds of Redditors are confirming issues with the service.
The posts allegedly come from multiple states, including Utah, Arizona, Missouri, Michigan, and Illinois, indicating a potential nationwide outage.
T-Mobile has not made a public comment about the outage so far, but its Help account on X is responding to user complaints with boilerplate responses.
T-Mobile isn't the only carrier to experience a notable outage this year.
Back in January, Verizon was hit with a major nationwide outage.
The company claimed the outage did not stem from a cyberattack, rather a software issue.
We don't know why T-Mobile is down at the moment, but, in all likelihood, the company will update the public sooner than later, if not fix the issue altogether.
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Anchoring Bias
7%Anchoring Bias
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7%AuthorJake Peterson
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Framing Effect
0%Framing Effect
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
0.5%PublicationLifehacker
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
16.9%Optimism Bias
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16.9%AuthorJake Peterson
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Negativity Bias
2.9%Negativity Bias
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2.9%AuthorJake Peterson
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
6.4%Recency Bias
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6.4%AuthorJake Peterson
0.9%PublicationLifehacker
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
2.7%PublicationLifehacker
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
0.2%PublicationLifehacker
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Hasty Generalization
11%Hasty Generalization
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11%AuthorJake Peterson
4.4%PublicationLifehacker
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
7%Bandwagon
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7%AuthorJake Peterson
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
7%Anecdotal
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7%AuthorJake Peterson
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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0%AuthorJake Peterson
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
16.9%Personal Incredulity
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16.9%AuthorJake Peterson
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
0%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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172 words analyzed.
Analysis
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