Why Some Americans Want to Be Disabled ⁠91%

By Jon Gingerich⁠100%

7/31/2026, 11:45:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Biased Writer Voice, and Actor-Observer Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 48.6% saturation with 35 hits. Analysis detected 196 faulty-reasoning hits from 72 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 80.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠91% (2,420 of 26,509 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 90.90% of the article peer group.

When I started going blind, I considered it a death sentence. 
I was terrified of losing my eyesight, for reasons that I think are understandable. 
I was embarrassed about being disabled and resented the inconvenience of it, the way this thing had entered my life like an uninvited guest. 
There’s something inherently final about disability, but no one tells you how remarkably anticlimactic it is. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 3.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.5%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.7%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 5.6%The Dispatch: 0.4%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 9.7%Jon Gingerich: 4.9%The Dispatch: 4.5%Framing Effect9.7%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.7%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.8%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 22.2%Jon Gingerich: 19.1%The Dispatch: 2.9%Pessimism Bias22.2%This article: 48.6%Jon Gingerich: 51.4%The Dispatch: 5.3%Negativity Bias48.6%This article: 19.4%Jon Gingerich: 13.2%The Dispatch: 0.4%Self-Serving Bias19.4%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.2%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 33.3%Jon Gingerich: 8.3%The Dispatch: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias33.3%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.7%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.6%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.1%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.3%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.0%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 3.1%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 2.3%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.0%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 22.2%Jon Gingerich: 11.1%The Dispatch: 5.8%Hasty Generalization22.2%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 48.6%Jon Gingerich: 12.2%The Dispatch: 2.5%Appeal to Emotion48.6%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.7%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.4%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 19.4%Jon Gingerich: 4.9%The Dispatch: 0.9%Anecdotal19.4%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.4%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.2%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 0.8%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 48.6%Jon Gingerich: 17.7%The Dispatch: 6.8%Biased Writer Voice48.6%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.3%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.3%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 1.4%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jon Gingerich: 0.0%The Dispatch: 5.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

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