BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Appeal to Authority, and Unattributed Quote, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 64.5% saturation with 71 hits. Analysis detected 289 faulty-reasoning hits from 110 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 21.1% and a BS Rank of 10% (24,846 of 27,612 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 90.00% of the article peer group.

A large police presence has gathered at the Meijer store in Waukesha. 
A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter near the scene said at least a half dozen police SUVs are securing the entrances and exit points at the massive retailer located at 801 E. 
Sunset Drive. 
Details of what happened inside the store are scant at this point. 
Waukesha police said they are putting together a staging area for the media, indicating that an update on the matter is imminent. 
This is a developing story. 
Stay with jsonline.com for updates. 
Chris Ramirez covers courts for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. 
He can be reached at caramirez@usatodayco.com. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.4%Journal Sentinel: 1.3%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.3%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 28.2%Chris Ramirez: 3.1%Journal Sentinel: 1.6%Availability Heuristic28.2%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.3%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 1.3%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 64.5%Chris Ramirez: 7.6%Journal Sentinel: 3.0%Framing Effect64.5%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.4%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 20.0%Chris Ramirez: 1.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.6%Optimism Bias20.0%This article: 10.9%Chris Ramirez: 0.6%Journal Sentinel: 0.5%Pessimism Bias10.9%This article: 5.5%Chris Ramirez: 2.1%Journal Sentinel: 3.8%Negativity Bias5.5%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.9%Journal Sentinel: 0.3%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 1.5%Journal Sentinel: 0.3%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.9%Journal Sentinel: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 1.1%Journal Sentinel: 0.7%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 4.5%Chris Ramirez: 0.2%Journal Sentinel: 0.8%Recency Bias4.5%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.1%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.3%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 28.2%Chris Ramirez: 1.5%Journal Sentinel: 0.9%Appeal to Authority28.2%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.0%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 20.0%Chris Ramirez: 1.0%Journal Sentinel: 2.1%Hasty Generalization20.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.0%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.2%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 7.4%Journal Sentinel: 3.9%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 1.4%Journal Sentinel: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 4.2%Journal Sentinel: 1.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.9%Journal Sentinel: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.3%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 1.6%Journal Sentinel: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 1.1%Journal Sentinel: 1.4%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 1.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.7%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 28.2%Chris Ramirez: 1.7%Journal Sentinel: 0.3%Unattributed Quote28.2%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 1.1%Journal Sentinel: 0.4%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 28.2%Chris Ramirez: 2.9%Journal Sentinel: 0.5%Biased Writer Voice28.2%This article: 20.0%Chris Ramirez: 1.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.7%Indoctrination20.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 1.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Chris Ramirez: 0.0%Journal Sentinel: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 4.5%Chris Ramirez: 0.5%Journal Sentinel: 0.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…4.5%

110 words analyzed.

Speakers

2speakers34%attributed speech73writer words
Selected voice

Waukesha police

100%flagged-word coverage
22 attributed words59% of attributed speech97% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Indoctrination+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Waukesha police: 100.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote-42.5 ptsWriter: 42.5%Waukesha police: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-42.5 ptsWriter: 42.5%Waukesha police: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -6.8 ptsWriter: 6.8%Waukesha police: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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