Gothamist⁠77%

Teen girl hospitalized after subway surfing in Queens, NYPD says ⁠28%

By Brittany Kriegstein⁠66%

7/23/2026, 12:12:00 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Ambiguity (Equivocation), Anecdotal, and Confirmation Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 41.4% saturation with 67 hits. Analysis detected 286 faulty-reasoning hits from 162 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 38.9% and a BS Rank of ⁠28% (15,816 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 72.30% of the article peer group.

A 16-year-old girl was hospitalized Wednesday after she was injured while subway surfing in Queens, according to the NYPD. 
Police said the girl got hurt on top of a southbound A train as it pulled into the Broad Channel subway station around 3:15 p.m. 
Officers found her conscious and alert, and said she had suffered injuries to her leg and torso. 
A bystander video posted to social media appears to show the girl lying on her stomach on top of the train car as passengers gather around her. 
Firefighters and police eventually load her onto a stretcher and gently lower it down. 
EMS workers took the girl to Brookdale Hospital in stable condition. 
Police said they were still investigating exactly what she had struck. 
In May, one teenager was killed and another critically injured after falling from a J train while subway surfing across the Williamsburg Bridge. 
The MTA declined to comment. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 15.4%Brittany Kriegstein: 3.5%Gothamist: 2.7%Confirmation Bias15.4%This article: 3.1%Brittany Kriegstein: 2.3%Gothamist: 1.5%Anchoring Bias3.1%This article: 41.4%Brittany Kriegstein: 4.4%Gothamist: 3.6%Availability Heuristic41.4%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.1%Gothamist: 1.1%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.1%Gothamist: 0.7%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.7%Gothamist: 1.2%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 6.2%Brittany Kriegstein: 8.9%Gothamist: 8.4%Framing Effect6.2%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.8%Gothamist: 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 6.8%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.8%Gothamist: 1.1%Status Quo Bias6.8%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 6.8%Brittany Kriegstein: 3.2%Gothamist: 3.6%Optimism Bias6.8%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.7%Gothamist: 1.7%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 6.2%Brittany Kriegstein: 9.1%Gothamist: 8.5%Negativity Bias6.2%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.0%Gothamist: 2.6%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.8%Gothamist: 1.0%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.6%Gothamist: 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.6%Gothamist: 2.1%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.6%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 2.8%Gothamist: 2.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 14.2%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.6%Gothamist: 1.3%Recency Bias14.2%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.2%Gothamist: 1.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 13.6%Brittany Kriegstein: 5.0%Gothamist: 4.4%Appeal to Authority13.6%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.6%Gothamist: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.8%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 14.2%Brittany Kriegstein: 4.1%Gothamist: 3.8%Hasty Generalization14.2%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 6.4%Gothamist: 6.4%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.2%Gothamist: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.8%Gothamist: 2.4%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.2%Gothamist: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 16.7%Brittany Kriegstein: 3.2%Gothamist: 2.8%Anecdotal16.7%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 32.1%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.6%Gothamist: 1.3%Ambiguity (Equivocation)32.1%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.3%Gothamist: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.0%Gothamist: 0.2%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.5%Gothamist: 1.2%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.9%Gothamist: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 5.8%Gothamist: 3.2%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.5%Gothamist: 1.5%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.4%Gothamist: 1.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 0.1%Gothamist: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Brittany Kriegstein: 1.0%Gothamist: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

162 words analyzed.

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No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

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

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Analysis

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