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Two killed in Hammond motorcycle crash near Chanell Shopping Center, police say 4%

By Sam Karlin88%

7/19/2026, 7:52:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 3 faulty reasoning types, including Unattributed Quote and Confirmation Bias, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 31.9% saturation with 36 hits. Analysis detected 80 faulty-reasoning hits from 113 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 19.2% and a BS Rank of 4% (17,882 of 18,604 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 96.10% of the article peer group.

Two people riding on a motorcycle died after a crash Saturday evening in Hammond, authorities said. 
The driver of the motorcycle was “improperly passing” at a high speed and hit a car in the intersection of W. 
Thomas Street at Chanell Shopping Center, the Hammond Police Department said in a Facebook post. 
The riders were thrown from the motorcycle and landed “out of the roadway,” police said. 
They were declared dead at the scene. 
Police do not suspect the driver was impaired. 
Hammond police haven’t identified the riders. 
The driver of the vehicle that was hit was not injured, HPD said. 
Confirmation Bias
7.1%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
0%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
0%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
0%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
0%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
31.9%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
31.9%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

113 words analyzed.

Analysis

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