townhall.com86%
NYPD: Suspect Screamed 'Allahu Akbar' During Upper West Side Stabbings 56%
By Scott McClallen27%
7/23/2026, 9:13:00 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 6 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Representativeness Heuristic, and Negativity Bias, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 23.3% saturation with 24 hits. Analysis detected 99 faulty-reasoning hits from 103 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 53.4% and a BS Rank of 56% (9,447 of 21,188 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 55.40% of the article peer group.
A 51-year-old man named Raul Morales was arrested today after he allegedly yelled “Allahu Akbar” in separate attacks in New York.
The victims, an asian male and a Jewish male, went to the hospital and are expected to survive.
The New York Police Department is determining the motive and evaluating whether the attack is a hate crime or not, according to New York City Police Commissioner Jessica S.
Tisch.
While the perpetrator has no known mental health history with the NYPD, the initial investigation suggests that mental health may have been a factor.
Confirmation Bias
23.3%Confirmation Bias
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23.3%AuthorScott McClallen
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
0%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
20.4%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
0%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
9.7%Negativity Bias
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9.7%AuthorScott McClallen
8.4%PublicationTownhall
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
9.7%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
23.3%Hasty Generalization
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2.2%PublicationTownhall
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
0%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
0%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
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
9.7%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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103 words analyzed.
Analysis
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