NBC News57%

New video shows moment hero fires at shooter at Idaho In-and-Out 46%

By NBC News66%

8/2/2026, 4:04:15 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Appeal to Emotion, and Biased Writer Voice, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 86.4% saturation with 51 hits. Analysis detected 236 faulty-reasoning hits from 59 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 41.8% and a BS Rank of 46% (14,753 of 26,881 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 54.90% of the article peer group.

Police in Idaho are hailing an armed citizen a hero for distracting a gunman who opened fire outside an In-and-Out in Twin Falls, helping save lives. 
Officials say three people were killed and seven others were injured in the shooting. 
NBC News’ Dana Griffin reports from the scene. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 44.1%NBC News: 1.8%NBC News: 1.9%Confirmation Bias44.1%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%NBC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 23.7%NBC News: 2.7%NBC News: 2.5%Availability Heuristic23.7%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.9%NBC News: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.3%NBC News: 0.6%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.5%NBC News: 1.6%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 62.7%NBC News: 6.0%NBC News: 5.4%Framing Effect62.7%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%NBC News: 0.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%NBC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 3.7%NBC News: 2.1%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.1%NBC News: 1.1%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 86.4%NBC News: 7.1%NBC News: 6.1%Negativity Bias86.4%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.4%NBC News: 1.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%NBC News: 0.6%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.6%NBC News: 1.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%NBC News: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 44.1%NBC News: 5.2%NBC News: 4.0%Halo Effect44.1%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.6%NBC News: 1.2%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.8%NBC News: 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.7%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.8%NBC News: 2.7%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%NBC News: 1.0%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%NBC News: 0.4%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.4%NBC News: 2.8%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.6%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 62.7%NBC News: 4.9%NBC News: 4.5%Appeal to Emotion62.7%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 3.3%NBC News: 1.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.0%NBC News: 1.5%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.8%NBC News: 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.8%NBC News: 1.8%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.4%NBC News: 1.1%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 62.7%NBC News: 3.2%NBC News: 3.3%Biased Writer Voice62.7%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%NBC News: 0.9%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 13.6%NBC News: 0.5%NBC News: 0.4%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…13.6%

59 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker14%attributed speech51writer words
100%flagged-word coverage
8 attributed words100% of attributed speech100% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%NBC News’ Dana Griffin: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-72.5 ptsWriter: 72.5%NBC News’ Dana Griffin: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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