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Deadly flash flooding tears through multiple states, forcing rescues 95%

7/24/2026, 12:40:20 PM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 22 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Anecdotal, and Ambiguity (Equivocation), with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 67.7% saturation with 157 hits. Analysis detected 971 faulty-reasoning hits from 232 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 90.8% and a BS Rank of 95% (1,261 of 21,886 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 94.20% of the video peer group.

This morning, parts of North Carolina facing a multi-day flash flood threat after heavy rain pummeled the region. 
As much as 5 in of rain falling in 24 hours in the central part of the state. 
One tree crushed this vehicle outside Charlotte, trapping a father and child inside. Trevor Tompkins helped pull them to safety. 
>> I had to fight through the trees. I had to I was I was standing on top of that branch that was behind the car. We pulled them out. 
And uh everyone's okay. 
>> An oak tree also crashed into this Raleigh home, shattering windows and punching through the roof. That same system bringing deadly flooding to West Virginia earlier this week, killing at least two people. 
at least two people. Search and rescue crews still working to clear debris and reopen roads. 
>> Hey, there's car. >> Oh my god, no. 
>> This as we are seeing new images of destruction. A car in Buckhannon sucked underneath a bridge by raging floodwaters. 
And in Weston, a hotel lobby filled with feet of muddy water. 
Meanwhile, overnight Bertha dying off after making a second landfall near the Texas-Louisiana border. 
Now, people here concerned for more dangerous weather and the impacts will have more of this continue through Saturday. 
>> All right, Leslie Lopez, thanks so much. 
Confirmation Bias
8.2%
Anchoring Bias
7.8%
Availability Heuristic
61.2%
Representativeness Heuristic
7.8%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
7.8%
Framing Effect
18.5%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
1.7%
Pessimism Bias
18.1%
Negativity Bias
67.7%
Self-Serving Bias
12.9%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
8.6%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
8.6%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
15.1%
Primacy Effect
3.4%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
0%
Appeal to Authority
0%
False Dilemma
8.2%
Slippery Slope
8.2%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
0%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
6.9%
Appeal to Emotion
27.2%
Begging the Question
0%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
28.4%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
8.2%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
50.4%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
33.6%
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%

232 words analyzed.

Analysis

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