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Hero principal who tackled gunman voted prom king by students 99%

4/20/2026, 12:49:18 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 19 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Emotion, Framing Effect, and Availability Heuristic, with Halo Effect as the most egregious example at 54.3% saturation with 107 hits. Analysis detected 622 faulty-reasoning hits from 197 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 99.2% and a BS Rank of 99% (254 of 16,813 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 98.50% of the video peer group.

Ladies and gentlemen, our king, 
Kurt Moore. 
A hero's greeting for a real life hero. 
This is the moment principal Kirk Moore found out the students at Paul's Valley 
High School elected him prom king. the 
student's way of thanking him for potentially saving their lives. After he 
was caught on camera, stopping an armed 
former student who authorities say was intent on carrying out a mass shooting. 
During the incident, Moore was shot in the leg and carried out in a stretcher. 
>> He's so wellliked and loved. He was just ecstatic. The kids went nuts. It was crazy. 
>> Burke Osborne DJed the prom playing hero 
as the students placed a crown on Moore's head. 
that her 
>> they were screaming and saying they loved him and all night long they were hugging him and it was so just such a good night. 
The school needed that after what happened. 
And while the students gave the principal this new title of prom king, 
anyone who has seen the video of him at 
that school also agreed he forever will also have the title of hero. 
Confirmation Bias
10.7%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
32.5%
Representativeness Heuristic
4.1%
Hindsight Bias
6.6%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
33.5%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
6.6%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
3.6%
Negativity Bias
15.2%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
9.6%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
54.3%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
7.1%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
18.3%
False Dilemma
0%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
43.7%
Begging the Question
12.7%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
9.6%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
4.6%
Anecdotal
28.9%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
7.6%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
6.6%
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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