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The summer I turned binge-y⁠76%

By Kenny Malone⁠0% Wailin Wong⁠0% Meg Cramer⁠0% Willa Rubin⁠0%

12/24/2025, 12:30:00 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Hindsight Bias, Optimism Bias, and Hasty Generalization, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 42.9% saturation with 81 hits. Analysis detected 415 faulty-reasoning hits from 189 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 67.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠76% (5,425 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 75.20% of the article peer group.

On the eve of Netflix shoveling a fourish-hour chunk of Stranger Things onto Christmas Day, we visit the past, present, and future of binge-dropped television shows. 
The strategy of releasing an entire season at the same time has been key to taking Netflix from a little startup that used to lend us DVDs in the mail … to a company so big and powerful, it is maybe going to buy Warner Brothers and own Bugs Bunny and Tony Soprano and the Harry Potter movies. 
But even Netflix may be flirting with some slightly less binge-y models of content release. 
Are we entering … the end of the binge drop? 
On our latest: what data tells us about binge watching. 
Was it the greatest business decision, and who does binge watching really benefit? 
Here's some of the research. 
This episode was produced by Willa Rubin and edited by Meg Cramer. 
It was fact-checked by Dania Suleman and engineered by Maggie Luthar. 
Alex Goldmark is our executive producer. 
Music: NPR Source Audio - "Tinker Snow Bell," "In the Heat of the Night," "Elevated," "Rolling Out of Town," and "Blue and Green." 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 13.8%Kenny Malone: 17.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.6%Anchoring Bias13.8%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 1.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.8%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 3.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.9%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 42.9%Kenny Malone: 48.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.1%Framing Effect42.9%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 10.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 30.7%Kenny Malone: 20.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.8%Hindsight Bias30.7%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 1.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 7.9%Kenny Malone: 4.4%Goats and Soda (NPR): 11.3%Negativity Bias7.9%This article: 30.7%Kenny Malone: 10.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 3.4%Optimism Bias30.7%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 20.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.4%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 5.3%Kenny Malone: 1.8%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Pessimism Bias5.3%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 8.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.7%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.3%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 2.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.1%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.2%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 6.9%Kenny Malone: 9.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%Ambiguity (Equivocation)6.9%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 7.9%Kenny Malone: 7.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.1%Appeal to Authority7.9%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 10.2%Goats and Soda (NPR): 6.6%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.7%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 6.9%Kenny Malone: 4.6%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.9%Begging the Question6.9%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 5.3%Kenny Malone: 8.1%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.5%False Dilemma5.3%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.5%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 30.7%Kenny Malone: 30.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 4.4%Hasty Generalization30.7%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 30.7%Kenny Malone: 30.7%Goats and Soda (NPR): 2.8%Post Hoc (False Cause)30.7%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 3.5%Goats and Soda (NPR): 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.3%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%Kenny Malone: 0.0%Goats and Soda (NPR): 0.2%Tu Quoque0.0%

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