Publication: the Guardian
the Guardian
has 38.6% among publications.
BS Score: 1.8%.
Articles analyzed: 296.
Words analyzed: 1,531,424.
Analyzed articles
The Guardian
- By Amy Qin, Flávio Pessoa
- 7/2/2026, 1:00 PM
Negativity Bias 20.2% - Biased Writer Voice 12.1% - Confirmation Bias 11.4%
Jerry Bransford, a former US National Park Service (NPS) ranger, has always had a deep connection with the land he grew up on – and the land hundreds of feet below it. His great-great-grandfather, Materson “Mat” Bransford, was one of the earliest explorers of Mammoth Cave in south-central Kentucky, the largest known cave system on the... more
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- By Adam Gabbatt
- 7/1/2026, 5:00 PM
Biased Writer Voice 42.7% - Negativity Bias 41.8% - Appeal to Emotion 24.7%
I have been to some disappointing fairs in my time. There was one, in a small town in north-west England, where the main attraction was a little slide that you rode down on a burlap sack: except the guy who owned the slide had forgotten to bring the sacks, so me and my sister slid down on a T-shirt. Another time, at a village fete in a... more
The Guardian
- By Oliver Holmes
- 7/1/2026, 1:30 PM
Biased Writer Voice 35.2% - Negativity Bias 34.8% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 27.8%
Donald Trump’s money-making ventures enriched him by more than $2bn last year, according to newly released financial disclosures. The revenue was supercharged by the Trump family’s crypto projects, with the documents showing the US president made more than $1bn (£0.76bn) from crypto – an industry he has sought to deregulate. Here are... more
The Guardian
- By Oliver Milman
- 7/1/2026, 12:00 PM
Negativity Bias 26.1% - Appeal to Emotion 17.2% - Hasty Generalization 16.4%
When a study in May concluded that New Orleans had hit a “point of no return” due to the climate crisis that would require people to eventually retreat from their storied yet ultimately doomed city, the local reaction was swift and fiery. The onward march of rising seas around a sinking city was unsettling, but the study was “more... more
The Guardian
- By Gavin Blair
- 7/1/2026, 2:20 AM
Anecdotal 13.3% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 9.8% - Framing Effect 9.4%
Perched dramatically on a hilltop in western Japan, Himeji castle’s striking white-plastered, tiered roofs earned it the moniker “white heron castle”. The sweeping 17th-century complex is regarded as the finest existing samurai fortress, and attracts more than one and a half million visitors a year. But as Japan seeks to manage greater... more
The Guardian
- By Sarah Johnson
- 6/30/2026, 10:00 AM
Negativity Bias 22.9% - Appeal to Emotion 17.1% - Optimism Bias 13.8%
Growing up and living with albinism in rural Nigeria was tough for Aisha*. She and her two siblings with the condition were shrouded in stigma and lived in constant fear of being mutilated or killed. Her sister was attacked twice and her brother was kidnapped as a child by people who wanted to sell his body parts. Three years ago, Aisha,... more
The Guardian
- By Dale Elliott, Natricia Duncan
- 6/30/2026, 10:00 AM
Negativity Bias 22.5% - Appeal to Emotion 12.3% - Appeal to Authority 11.6%
It has been more than four months since Ricky Joseph left his home for the last time. His partner, Lucille Charles, and their chidren were still asleep at home on the Caribbean island of St Lucia, when Joseph, 35, set out to sea early in the morning on 13 February to fish for tuna, ballyhoo and snapper. When Joseph failed to return hours... more
The Guardian
- By David Smith
- 6/29/2026, 11:00 AM
Biased Writer Voice 34.7% - Negativity Bias 33% - Confirmation Bias 19.2%
This is the room where it happened. The assembly room at Independence Hall in Philadelphia where, 250 years ago this week, a group of sweating, treasonous men broke from the most powerful empire since ancient Rome. Amid a summer of trial and error, delegates including John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson ratified a flawed... more
The Guardian
- By Zoe Williams
- 6/29/2026, 4:00 AM
Appeal to Emotion 22.1% - Negativity Bias 21.6% - Anecdotal 21.6%
When Erin Brockovich woke to find 30 emails from people from the same town, she realised something was going on. People email Brockovich all the time because of what happened in 1993, when she was instrumental in suing Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on behalf of residents of the town of Hinkley, California, whose groundwater had... more
The Guardian
- By Fiona Kelliher
- 6/29/2026, 4:00 AM
Negativity Bias 14% - Representativeness Heuristic 12.5% - Availability Heuristic 12.3%
Late one evening in October 2023, Sarah* felt labour pains starting. It was 11pm, but at the cyberscam compound inside Laos’ Golden Triangle, workers were logging on for a long night shift, scamming Americans online. Every night, workers sat at their computers until the early hours, building fake profiles of glamorous, jet-setting women... more