WPLN News29%
NashVillager Podcast: A dark anniversary 23%
By Nina Cardona
7/16/2026, 11:58:45 AM
Keywords: Chattanooga, Gun Violence, History, Mass Shooting, Mental Health, Military, Tennessee 250 History
BS Summary: This article contains 10 faulty reasoning types, including Hindsight Bias, Framing Effect, and Availability Heuristic, with Representativeness Heuristic as the most egregious example at 21.8% saturation with 19 hits. Analysis detected 133 faulty-reasoning hits from 87 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 35.9% and a BS Rank of 23% (12,862 of 16,550 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 77.70% of the article peer group.
What lead a man to kill five people in two attacks on Chattanooga military facilities in 2015?
This date was a deadly one in Tennessee eleven years ago, with some parallels to another shooting in 2025.
Plus the local news for July 16, 2026 and the importance of DJs to Nashville R&B.
Credits:
This is a production of Nashville Public Radio.
Host/producer: Nina Cardona
Editor: LaTonya Turner
Additional support: Mack Linebaugh, Tony Gonzalez, Megan Jones and the staff of WPLN and WNXP
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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87 words analyzed.
Analysis
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