NBC News35%

New details in Mississippi teen’s death 3%

By NBC News36%

7/13/2026, 3:57:11 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Unattributed Quote, and Biased Writer Voice, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 50.9% saturation with 27 hits. Analysis detected 110 faulty-reasoning hits from 53 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 16% and a BS Rank of 3% (21,225 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 97.00% of the article peer group.

As the investigation into the death of 18-year-old Nolan Wells continues, two friends who were on Horn Island are speaking out. 
Wells went to the island in a boat on July Fourth and his body was found two days later. 
NBC News’ Kate Snow has the story. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.7%NBC News: 2.1%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 0.8%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 39.6%NBC News: 3.1%NBC News: 2.9%Availability Heuristic39.6%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.8%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.9%NBC News: 1.7%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 50.9%NBC News: 5.9%NBC News: 6.4%Framing Effect50.9%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%NBC News: 0.3%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.7%NBC News: 1.8%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.8%NBC News: 1.2%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 10.7%NBC News: 7.0%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%NBC News: 1.2%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%NBC News: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%NBC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.5%NBC News: 1.5%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 13.2%NBC News: 2.8%NBC News: 4.0%Halo Effect13.2%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%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: 2.1%NBC News: 1.3%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 11.3%NBC News: 1.0%NBC News: 0.5%Primacy Effect11.3%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 13.2%NBC News: 4.0%NBC News: 3.2%Appeal to Authority13.2%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.3%NBC News: 1.2%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%NBC News: 0.5%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: 3.2%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.4%NBC News: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 3.6%NBC News: 4.9%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.7%NBC News: 0.8%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.4%NBC News: 1.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%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: 1.1%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: 2.1%NBC News: 1.6%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: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.1%NBC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 39.6%NBC News: 4.1%NBC News: 1.8%Unattributed Quote39.6%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 2.0%NBC News: 1.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 39.6%NBC News: 4.4%NBC News: 4.1%Biased Writer Voice39.6%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.6%NBC News: 1.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 0.0%NBC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%NBC News: 1.1%NBC News: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

53 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker13%attributed speech46writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 6 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageNBC News • 7 words • 0.0% coverage
Selected voice

NBC News

100%flagged-word coverage
7 attributed words100% of attributed speech59% writer coverage
0%25.0%50.0%Unattributed Quote-45.7 ptsWriter: 45.7%NBC News: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-45.7 ptsWriter: 45.7%NBC News: 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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