NH News Recap: Teachers give cellphone ban thumbs up; new sharks spotted off NE coast ⁠16%

By Rick Ganley⁠21% Jessica Hunt⁠21%

7/31/2026, 2:00:07 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Post Hoc (False Cause), Appeal to Nature, and Overconfidence Bias, with Availability Heuristic as the most egregious example at 19.1% saturation with 22 hits. Analysis detected 166 faulty-reasoning hits from 115 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 24.8% and a BS Rank of ⁠16% (25,051 of 29,795 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 84.10% of the article peer group.

This week on the NH News Recap, three stories that caught our attention: 
1. 
A New Hampshire woman is caught up in the White House's crackdown on foreign-born nationals. 
2. 
The Department of Education surveys 1,400 educators to find out the effects and opinions of the cellphone ban in schools. 
3. 
At least three new species of shark have been observed off the coast of New England, drawn north by warming ocean waters. 
Our guests on this week's edition of the NH News Recap: 
* Steven Porter, Boston Globe reporter 
* Kate Dario, NHPR reporter 
* Amanda Beland, WBUR reporter 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 1.9%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 19.1%Rick Ganley: 9.6%New Hampshire Public Radio: 2.2%Availability Heuristic19.1%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.2%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 17.4%Rick Ganley: 4.3%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.7%Overconfidence Bias17.4%This article: 13.0%Rick Ganley: 7.6%New Hampshire Public Radio: 3.7%Framing Effect13.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.8%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.9%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 1.7%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.4%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 13.0%Rick Ganley: 3.3%New Hampshire Public Radio: 4.0%Negativity Bias13.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 1.3%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.2%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 1.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 1.3%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.1%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.6%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 13.0%Rick Ganley: 3.3%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.1%Primacy Effect13.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.0%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.2%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 1.9%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.8%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.1%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 13.0%Rick Ganley: 3.3%New Hampshire Public Radio: 2.4%Hasty Generalization13.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.2%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.3%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 2.5%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.5%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 19.1%Rick Ganley: 4.8%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)19.1%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 17.4%Rick Ganley: 4.3%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.2%Burden of Proof17.4%This article: 19.1%Rick Ganley: 4.8%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.1%Appeal to Nature19.1%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.9%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.8%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.0%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.0%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 1.2%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.3%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 1.0%Biased Writer Voice0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 1.2%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.5%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.2%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Rick Ganley: 0.0%New Hampshire Public Radio: 0.5%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

115 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers14%attributed speech99writer words
Selected voice

Steven Porter

0%flagged-word coverage
6 attributed words38% of attributed speech73% writer coverage

No manipulation-pattern hits were found in this speaker's attributed words or the writer's voice.

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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