Man facing divorce kills 8 children, including 7 of his own, in shooting rampage 73%
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske0% Mariana Alfaro0% Chris Hacker0%
4/19/2026, 4:56:46 PM
Topics: Gun Violence
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Confirmation Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Appeal to Authority as the most egregious example at 39% saturation with 39 hits. Analysis detected 184 faulty-reasoning hits from 100 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 65.7% and a BS Rank of 73% (4,632 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 72.50% of the article peer group.
Man facing divorce kills 8 children, including 7 of his own, in shooting rampage
The gunman is dead, and his brother-in-law said he was distraught in a recent conversation about his breakup.
The Louisiana shooting was the country's deadliest mass killing in two years.
SHREVEPORT, Louisiana — Eight children ranging in age from 1 to about 14 were killed here Sunday in a shooting that police described as a domestic disturbance.
It was the deadliest mass killing in the United States in two years, data shows.
Confirmation Bias
27%Confirmation Bias
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27%AuthorMolly Hennessy-Fiske
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
28%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
27%Negativity Bias
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27%AuthorMolly Hennessy-Fiske
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
12%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
39%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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