How well did you follow St. Louis-area news this year? Take our 2025 news quiz97%
12/19/2025, 11:00:00 AM
Topics: Year In Review, Quiz
BS Summary: This article contains 16 faulty reasoning types, including Optimism Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Anchoring Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 45.7% saturation with 79 hits. Analysis detected 397 faulty-reasoning hits from 173 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 95.9% and a BS Rank of 97% (514 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 96.90% of the article peer group.
A devastating tornado, the birth of the St. Louis Zoo's newest Asian elephant, and the federal indictment of St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery were some of the biggest stories of 2025.
It's been quite a year.
Donald Trump retook the presidency.
People grew more excited — and more anxious — about AI.
Everyone was humming along to Sabrina Carpenter's "Manchild."
KPop Demon Hunters went wild.
But that's the national news.
Lots of things happened in the St. Louis area, and you remember them all.
Right?
Put that memory to the test with STLPR's 2025 year-in-news quiz.
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Analysis
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