ABC News⁠99%

NFL star burglary attempt: Authorities ⁠93%

7/20/2026, 12:50:15 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Appeal to Authority, Negativity Bias, and Representativeness Heuristic, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 49.8% saturation with 124 hits. Analysis detected 869 faulty-reasoning hits from 249 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 88.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠93% (1,524 of 21,887 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 93.00% of the video peer group.

Police say they are investigating yetanother attempted burglary at the home of a high-profile athlete. Authorities say NFL star Saquon Barkley was at home with his family outside of Philadelphia when they were targeted. ABC's Perry Russom has the latest. 
>> Tonight, police outside Philadelphia searching for at least two people accused of breaking into the home of NFL star Saquon Barkley. 
Investigators say the Super Bowl champion was home with his family early Saturday morning when they were targeted. Officers arriving at Barkley's home within minutes. The alleged intruders already gone. Police say it is not clear if anything was stolen. 
>> Like how [clears throat] long were they in the home? >> It was a very short period of time. 
>> Barkley has been outspoken about his love of being a father. >> When you have those kids and you see those kids grow up, you realize that there's so much more in this world than how you how well you run the football. 
Investigators releasing this picture of a white SUV they say may have been involved. There is history of NFL stars' homes being targeted. Last year, police say thieves stole about $200,000 worth of property belonging to Cleveland Browns quarterback Shedur Sanders. 
And in May, three Chilean nationals arrested in Argentina wanted in connection to break-ins at the homes of Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes. 
>> Police say the Barkley family was not hurt, Lindsey. 
>> Perry, thank you. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 16.5%ABC News: 2.2%Confirmation Bias16.5%This article: 16.1%ABC News: 0.7%Anchoring Bias16.1%This article: 49.8%ABC News: 3.0%Availability Heuristic49.8%This article: 25.7%ABC News: 0.9%Representativeness Heuristic25.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.1%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 18.9%ABC News: 6.8%Framing Effect18.9%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 2.4%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 17.7%ABC News: 1.0%Pessimism Bias17.7%This article: 30.9%ABC News: 7.7%Negativity Bias30.9%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.5%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 16.1%ABC News: 0.1%Actor-Observer Bias16.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.8%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 17.7%ABC News: 2.2%Halo Effect17.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 8.8%ABC News: 1.3%Recency Bias8.8%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.5%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 34.1%ABC News: 3.3%Appeal to Authority34.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.9%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 25.3%ABC News: 2.8%Hasty Generalization25.3%This article: 9.2%ABC News: 0.4%Red Herring9.2%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 21.7%ABC News: 4.3%Appeal to Emotion21.7%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 16.5%ABC News: 2.1%Post Hoc (False Cause)16.5%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.2%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 24.1%ABC News: 1.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)24.1%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.0%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.9%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 3.1%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.6%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.7%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%ABC News: 1.0%Attempt to Sell a Product or S
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