NBC News⁠99%

Deadly weather and flooding slams Midwest ⁠99%

4/17/2026, 12:14:24 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 20 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Anecdotal, and Availability Heuristic, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 57.9% saturation with 114 hits. Analysis detected 678 faulty-reasoning hits from 197 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 100% and a BS Rank of ⁠99% (208 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 98.80% of the video peer group.

Families evacuating neighborhoods as flood waters inundate parts of the Midwest. 
Collapsed roadways swallowing this car today. 
>> I looked outside and there was heavy rain and then all of a sudden it was up to the doors of cars. 
>> You can hear rain and hail pelting vehicles in Kansas. 
Powerful winds toppling tree after tree there and tangling power lines. 
Cameras captured floodwaters in and outside of the Milwaukee Brewers game, stranding baseball fans leaving Wednesday. 
>> I'm about half high. 
>> Claire Peterson from our NBC affiliate in Green Bay is on the ground in hard hit Wisconsin. 
People are putting sandbags around their businesses as more rain is expected in this area come Friday. 
Dams in Michigan have been overwhelmed by unrelenting rain and snow melt. 
The water level is just inches from topping the Shbboan Dam, indicating a high probability of a need to evacuate. 
While a fast-moving storm brought a rare water spout outside of Seattle. 
And for tens of millions out east today, an early heat wave sending temperatures up to 30 degrees above average, reaching record highs today in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Norfolk. 
Confirmation Bias
0%
Anchoring Bias
14.7%
Availability Heuristic
28.4%
Representativeness Heuristic
11.7%
Hindsight Bias
10.2%
Overconfidence Bias
6.1%
Framing Effect
23.4%
Loss Aversion
18.8%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
8.6%
Negativity Bias
57.9%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
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
0%
Primacy Effect
12.2%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
17.3%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
3%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
14.7%
Appeal to Emotion
32.5%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
8.6%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
6.1%
Appeal to Nature
6.1%
Composition/Division
5.6%
Anecdotal
31%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
27.4%
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%

197 words analyzed.

Analysis

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