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NYPD tracks down 5 train-surfing teens using drones to see where they were from above #shorts 87%

7/25/2026, 7:18:39 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 13 faulty reasoning types, including Confirmation Bias, Anchoring Bias, and Negativity Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 47.6% saturation with 49 hits. Analysis detected 267 faulty-reasoning hits from 103 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 74.3% and a BS Rank of 87% (3,532 of 26,253 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 86.50% of the video peer group.

Yeah, that's your phone. 
You got pictures. 
It's a total of six train surfers. 
>> Which car? 
>> Down between the 4 and 5 1. 
>> One had a black outfit. 
They look like pink red shoes. 
There's another one in all white. 
>> They're running on the tracks. 
>> Two on the tracks. 
They're jumping into a backyard. 
One white sweatshirt, black pants. 
One all black. 
They're running into a backyard right now. 
>> All right, they're on East 15th Street now going towards Avenue O. 
Confirmation Bias
32%
Anchoring Bias
29.1%
Availability Heuristic
47.6%
Representativeness Heuristic
25.2%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
6.8%
Framing Effect
15.5%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
28.2%
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
6.8%
Primacy Effect
2.9%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
15.5%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
5.8%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
28.2%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
0%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
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
15.5%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

103 words analyzed.

Analysis

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