Associated Press100%
Wisconsin tornado causes extensive damage and cuts power to thousands of homes 90%
7/28/2026, 5:36:03 AM
BS Summary: This video contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Appeal to Emotion, with Anecdotal as the most egregious example at 39.5% saturation with 66 hits. Analysis detected 378 faulty-reasoning hits from 167 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 79.7% and a BS Rank of 90% (2,592 of 25,189 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 89.70% of the video peer group.
I heard a big [clears throat] crack, and
I saw this limb
>> [music]
>> go into the garage.
And I headed down to the basement
[music]
with my kitty.
And when I come up, it's like a war zone here.
>> I was actually watching the weather on
the TV, you know, I was working remote,
and the sirens went off, and
>> [music]
>> my daughter and I grabbed a cat, went in
the basement, got really quiet, like our
ears started to pop, almost like I you know, we're on an airplane or something,
and it [music] was it was intense.
>> We heard a lot of Yeah, a lot of loud noises, and we still had a cat upstairs,
so I was a little worried about that.
My daughter looked up and said, "Oh [music]
my goodness." You know, and ran back downstairs cuz she could see the trees coming down.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
29.3%Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
9%Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
4.2%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
10.2%Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
4.2%Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
0%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
28.7%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
10.8%Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
14.4%Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
1.8%Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
3.6%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
0%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
7.2%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
4.8%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
17.4%Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
13.2%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
7.8%Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
39.5%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
15.6%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
4.8%Unattributed Quote
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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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167 words analyzed.
Analysis
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