Gothamist76%
Teen girl hospitalized after subway surfing in Queens, NYPD says 28%
By Brittany Kriegstein67%
7/23/2026, 12:12:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Anecdotal, and Confirmation Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 41.4% saturation with 67 hits. Analysis detected 286 faulty-reasoning hits from 162 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 38.9% and a BS Rank of 28% (15,340 of 21,198 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 72.40% of the article peer group.
A 16-year-old girl was hospitalized Wednesday after she was injured while subway surfing in Queens, according to the NYPD.
Police said the girl got hurt on top of a southbound A train as it pulled into the Broad Channel subway station around 3:15 p.m.
Officers found her conscious and alert, and said she had suffered injuries to her leg and torso.
A bystander video posted to social media appears to show the girl lying on her stomach on top of the train car as passengers gather around her.
Firefighters and police eventually load her onto a stretcher and gently lower it down.
EMS workers took the girl to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition.
Police said they were still investigating exactly what she had struck.
In May, one teenager was killed and another critically injured after falling from a J train while subway surfing across the Williamsburg Bridge.
The MTA declined to comment.
Confirmation Bias
15.4%Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
3.1%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
41.4%Availability Heuristic
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Framing Effect
6.2%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
6.8%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
6.8%Optimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
6.2%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving 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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Recency Bias
14.2%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
13.6%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
14.2%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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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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Genetic Fallacy
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Biased Writer Voice
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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162 words analyzed.
Analysis
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