Dec. 25, 2025: Celebrate the season with the 10th Colorado Matters Holiday Extravaganza!96%
By Ryan Warner0%
12/25/2025, 10:50:42 AM
Keywords: Colorado Matters, Holiday Special, Bluegrass, Mariachi, Comedy, Storytime, Judy Garland, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Togetherness
BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, In-Group Bias, and Optimism Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 42.4% saturation with 28 hits. Analysis detected 139 faulty-reasoning hits from 66 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 93.8% and a BS Rank of 96% (728 of 16,813 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 95.70% of the article peer group.
Musician, Hot Rize co-founder and eTown host Nick Forster, left, with banjo player Chris Elliot, headlined this year’s Colorado Matters Holiday Extravaganza.
A CPR tradition turns 10 this year.
The Colorado Matters Holiday Extravaganza returns with bluegrass, mariachi, comedy and storytime.
And as always, we pay homage to Judy Garland.
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or simply value togetherness, this audio gift is for you!
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Anchoring Bias
13.6%Anchoring Bias
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1.8%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Availability Heuristic
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Confirmation Bias
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Framing Effect
42.4%Framing Effect
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42.4%AuthorRyan Warner
4.8%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Halo Effect
33.3%Halo Effect
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33.3%AuthorRyan Warner
4.3%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Hindsight Bias
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Horn Effect
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In-Group Bias
24.2%In-Group Bias
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24.2%AuthorRyan Warner
4.3%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Loss Aversion
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Negativity Bias
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4.1%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Optimism Bias
24.2%Optimism Bias
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24.2%AuthorRyan Warner
4.8%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Pessimism Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Recency Bias
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Self-Serving Bias
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0.3%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Status Quo Bias
24.2%Status Quo Bias
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24.2%AuthorRyan Warner
1.4%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Anecdotal
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Appeal to Authority
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4.1%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Appeal to Emotion
24.2%Appeal to Emotion
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24.2%AuthorRyan Warner
4.3%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Appeal to Nature
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Bandwagon
24.2%Bandwagon
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2.3%PublicationColorado Public Radio
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Begging the Question
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Burden of Proof
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Circular Reasoning
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Genetic Fallacy
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Hasty Generalization
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Middle Ground
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No True Scotsman
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Personal Incredulity
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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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66 words analyzed.
Analysis
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