Newsmax75%
'Godmother of Thanksgiving' Played Key Role in its Rise93%
By Van Charles0%
11/26/2025, 12:57:59 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Hasty Generalization, Availability Heuristic, and In-Group Bias, with Representativeness Heuristic as the most egregious example at 67.2% saturation with 39 hits. Analysis detected 231 faulty-reasoning hits from 58 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 88.9% and a BS Rank of 93% (1,238 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 92.60% of the article peer group.
A stuffed turkey, mashed potatoes, a slab of Aunt Edna's pumpkin pie, and even Grandma Jones' green bean casserole.
Americans will give thanks for those things and more when they belly up to the table for their Thanksgiving feast.
Chances are, though, they'll leave out a nod to the woman most responsible for making it a national holiday.
Actor-Observer Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
65.5%Availability Heuristic
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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Confirmation Bias
32.8%Confirmation Bias
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32.8%AuthorVan Charles
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Framing Effect
0%Framing Effect
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Fundamental Attribution Error
32.8%Fundamental Attribution Error
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32.8%AuthorVan Charles
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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Horn Effect
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In-Group Bias
34.5%In-Group Bias
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34.5%AuthorVan Charles
67.2%PublicationNewsmax
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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Negativity Bias
32.8%Negativity Bias
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32.8%AuthorVan Charles
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Overconfidence Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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Recency Bias
0%Recency Bias
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Representativeness Heuristic
67.2%Representativeness Heuristic
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67.2%AuthorVan Charles
67.2%PublicationNewsmax
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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Status Quo Bias
0%Status Quo Bias
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17.2%PublicationNewsmax
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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Ad Hominem
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Anecdotal
32.8%Anecdotal
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32.8%AuthorVan Charles
16.4%PublicationNewsmax
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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Appeal to Emotion
32.8%Appeal to Emotion
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32.8%AuthorVan Charles
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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Composition/Division
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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Hasty Generalization
67.2%Hasty Generalization
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Middle Ground
0%Middle Ground
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Red Herring
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Slippery Slope
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Special Pleading
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Straw Man
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Tu Quoque
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58 words analyzed.
Analysis
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