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Witnesses and 911 calls detail scene of Idaho shooting 90%

8/2/2026, 5:32:40 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Overconfidence Bias, Ambiguity (Equivocation), and Anchoring Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 49.3% saturation with 113 hits. Analysis detected 738 faulty-reasoning hits from 229 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 79.1% and a BS Rank of 90% (2,700 of 26,005 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 89.60% of the video peer group.

terrifying moment after a deadly shooting at an In-N-Out in Twin Falls, Idaho. 
>> So far, all we have is a male 20 to 30 years of age, wearing blue shirt, glasses, and pants. 
>> This man seen with a firearm as people in the area ran for cover. 
>> We're getting inundated with calls of reports of multiple people down. 
>> You never think it will happen here or where you live. 
>> Lane Cohen witnessed the shooting from the parking lot. It looked like he was shooting at random and a lot of shots. 
We're not talking five shots. It's a couple magazines. 
>> Shots were also fired at the nearby Twin Falls visitor center. 
>> We believe that the threat to the community is over. The the suspected shooter in this incident is deceased. 
>> Police were called to the scene around 2:30 p.m. Saturday. 
>> We have literally hundreds of people that were in some way, shape, or form in the area of this restaurant at the time that are being interviewed right now. In and Out opened just a week ago. 
Officials have not said exactly how the gunman died, but reiterate that there is no longer a threat to this community and 
the motive for the shooting remains the motive for the shooting remains 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
25.8%
Availability Heuristic
49.3%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
31.9%
Framing Effect
5.7%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
18.3%
Pessimism Bias
10.5%
Negativity Bias
14.8%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
6.6%
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
9.6%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
8.7%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
14%
Hasty Generalization
20.5%
Red Herring
14.8%
Bandwagon
5.2%
Appeal to Emotion
10.9%
Begging the Question
8.7%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
6.6%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
9.2%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
24.5%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
26.6%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
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%

229 words analyzed.

Analysis

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