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5 people die in a mass drowning in an Ohio river 89%

7/22/2026, 12:47:40 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 18 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Pessimism Bias, and Framing Effect, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 66% saturation with 196 hits. Analysis detected 984 faulty-reasoning hits from 297 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 82.6% and a BS Rank of 89% (2,230 of 19,667 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 88.70% of the video peer group.

Turn next year to the harrowing 911 calls just released tonight revealing the scope of a horrific family drowning tragedy in Ohio. Two children watching as their mother and father die. A total of five people dying, all trying to save a struggling swimmer. Here's Trevor Ault. 
>> Tonight, these are the harrowing 911 calls from a mass drowning in an Ohio river. 
>> We're right here on the riverbank and we think we see a floating body. 
>> A driver reporting a young boy screaming for help moments after his parents died. 
>> It was like a little baby. I think it was like a boy. He was like screaming like crying like mama mama. 
>> Police say Sunday evening a group was fishing in the Scioto River just north of Columbus when one of the adults dove into that river and started to struggle. 
Two children left on shore both under 10 years old. They saw that heartbreaking struggle as their mother and father jumped in to help. 
>> Two people went in to try to save them. 
Those people started to struggle in the river. 
Now we had two additional go in the water. Other people attempt to save them yet they don't have the skills to do that. So we end up with multiple deaths. 
>> Children running into the street for help. 
Rescue crews scoured the river with helicopters and drones. 
Two women died at the hospital. 
Monday the bodies of three men were found in the river. 
>> David, every adult who entered the water in this tragedy drowned. Those two children are now in the care of child services. David, really just awful. 
Trevor Ault tonight. Thank you, Trevor. 
Confirmation Bias
10.1%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
24.2%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
10.4%
Overconfidence Bias
10.4%
Framing Effect
24.9%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
3%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
29.6%
Negativity Bias
66%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
8.1%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
15.8%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
10.1%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
10.4%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
9.1%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
55.6%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
10.4%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
12.5%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
7.7%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
12.8%
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%

297 words analyzed.

Analysis

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