BS Summary: This video contains 25 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Negativity Bias, and Burden of Proof, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 41.3% saturation with 43 hits. Analysis detected 371 faulty-reasoning hits from 104 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 95.7% and a BS Rank of 97% (652 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 97.00% of the video peer group.
Google has put in a formal request with
the US government to release [music] an
army of 32 million sterile male mosquitoes to help lower the number of
illness [music] spreading bugs in
California and Florida as part of the
company's so far successful program they
call quote debug. The mosquitoes are
infected [music] with a naturally occurring bacteria that cause a female's
fertilized eggs to never hatch, hence
reducing [music] the mosquito population
with each generation. The Environmental
Protection Agency is reviewing [music]
the request and says it will issue a
decision this week.
Confirmation Bias
13.5%Confirmation Bias
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13.5%PublicationABC News
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Anchoring Bias
6.7%Anchoring Bias
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6.7%PublicationABC News
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Availability Heuristic
12.5%Availability Heuristic
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12.5%PublicationABC News
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Representativeness Heuristic
6.7%Representativeness Heuristic
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6.7%PublicationABC News
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%PublicationABC News
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Overconfidence Bias
21.2%Overconfidence Bias
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21.2%PublicationABC News
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Framing Effect
30.8%Framing Effect
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30.8%PublicationABC News
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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0%PublicationABC News
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Sunk Cost Effect
5.8%Sunk Cost Effect
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5.8%PublicationABC News
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Optimism Bias
17.3%Optimism Bias
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17.3%PublicationABC News
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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0%PublicationABC News
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Negativity Bias
26%Negativity Bias
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26%PublicationABC News
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%PublicationABC News
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%PublicationABC News
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%PublicationABC News
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%PublicationABC News
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
16.3%Halo Effect
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16.3%PublicationABC News
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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
2.9%Recency Bias
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2.9%PublicationABC News
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Primacy Effect
14.4%Primacy Effect
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14.4%PublicationABC News
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%PublicationABC News
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
41.3%Appeal to Authority
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41.3%PublicationABC News
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False Dilemma
2.9%False Dilemma
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2.9%PublicationABC News
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Slippery Slope
4.8%Slippery Slope
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4.8%PublicationABC News
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%PublicationABC News
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Hasty Generalization
12.5%Hasty Generalization
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12.5%PublicationABC News
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
13.5%Appeal to Emotion
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13.5%PublicationABC News
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Begging the Question
5.8%Begging the Question
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5.8%PublicationABC News
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
23.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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23.1%PublicationABC News
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
26%Burden of Proof
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26%PublicationABC News
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Appeal to Nature
19.2%Appeal to Nature
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19.2%PublicationABC News
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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0%PublicationABC News
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Anecdotal
6.7%Anecdotal
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6.7%PublicationABC News
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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0%PublicationABC News
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
15.4%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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15.4%PublicationABC News
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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
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
5.8%Unattributed Quote
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5.8%PublicationABC News
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Quote-first Misdirection
5.8%Quote-first Misdirection
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5.8%PublicationABC News
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Biased Writer Voice
0%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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0%PublicationABC News
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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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104 words analyzed.
Analysis
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