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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
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%Confirmation Bias
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32%PublicationCBS News
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Anchoring Bias
29.1%Anchoring Bias
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29.1%PublicationCBS News
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Availability Heuristic
47.6%Availability Heuristic
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47.6%PublicationCBS News
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Representativeness Heuristic
25.2%Representativeness Heuristic
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25.2%PublicationCBS News
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
6.8%Overconfidence Bias
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Framing Effect
15.5%Framing Effect
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15.5%PublicationCBS News
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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
28.2%Negativity Bias
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28.2%PublicationCBS News
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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
0%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
6.8%Recency Bias
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6.8%PublicationCBS News
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Primacy Effect
2.9%Primacy Effect
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2.9%PublicationCBS News
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
15.5%Appeal to Authority
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15.5%PublicationCBS News
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%PublicationCBS News
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Slippery Slope
0%Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
5.8%Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
28.2%Appeal to Emotion
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28.2%PublicationCBS News
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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
0%Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
0%Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
15.5%Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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103 words analyzed.
Analysis
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