9to5Mac58%

9to5Mac Overtime 072: Apple Watch and the new Siri - 9to5Mac 52%

By Jeff Benjamin72%

7/12/2026, 5:14:05 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Halo Effect, Appeal to Authority, and Availability Heuristic, with Attempt to Sell a Product or Service as the most egregious example at 35.2% saturation with 92 hits. Analysis detected 233 faulty-reasoning hits from 261 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 51.3% and a BS Rank of 52% (10,530 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 51.90% of the article peer group.

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9to5Mac Overtime 072: Apple Watch and the new Siri 
Jeff Benjamin | Jul 12 2026 - 5:14 pm PT 
Jeff and Fernando discuss the new Siri experience on Apple Watch, new Siri features on iOS 27, our Apple Watch feature wish list, enhancements to Messages on iPhone, and the state of social media in 2026. 
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Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 2.7%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 2.2%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 7.3%Jeff Benjamin: 1.8%9to5Mac: 2.8%Availability Heuristic7.3%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 1.0%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.3%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 2.9%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 4.6%Jeff Benjamin: 1.1%9to5Mac: 5.3%Framing Effect4.6%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 1.3%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.7%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 3.8%Jeff Benjamin: 2.9%9to5Mac: 3.4%Optimism Bias3.8%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 1.9%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 4.6%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 3.8%Jeff Benjamin: 1.0%9to5Mac: 0.7%Self-Serving Bias3.8%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.4%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.3%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 14.9%Jeff Benjamin: 9.4%9to5Mac: 3.5%Halo Effect14.9%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 1.8%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.4%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 11.1%Jeff Benjamin: 4.6%9to5Mac: 3.6%Appeal to Authority11.1%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 1.4%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.6%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.2%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 4.8%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 1.8%9to5Mac: 0.8%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 2.2%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.6%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 1.9%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.4%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 2.4%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 4.6%Jeff Benjamin: 1.1%9to5Mac: 1.9%Ambiguity (Equivocation)4.6%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.2%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.1%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 2.4%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.4%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 3.8%Jeff Benjamin: 3.8%9to5Mac: 6.0%Biased Writer Voice3.8%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 2.1%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%Jeff Benjamin: 0.0%9to5Mac: 0.0%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 35.2%Jeff Benjamin: 43.9%9to5Mac: 15.7%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…35.2%

261 words analyzed.

Speakers

8speakers60%attributed speech104writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverage9to5Mac Podcast Network • 3 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageJeff Benjamin • 10 words • 0.0% coverageJeff Benjamin • 36 words • 0.0% coverageBitwarden • 34 words • 100.0% coverageApple Polishing Cloth • 3 words • 0.0% coverageJeff Benjamin • 10 words • 100.0% coverage9to5Mac Overtime • 23 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 12 words • 0.0% coverageApple Podcasts • 5 words • 0.0% coverage9to5Mac • 7 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 9 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 100.0% coverageJeff Benjamin • 4 words • 0.0% coverageJeff Benjamin • 10 words • 100.0% coverageApple • 12 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

Apple

100%flagged-word coverage
12 attributed words7.6% of attributed speech56% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Attempt to Sell a Product +81.7 ptsWriter: 18.3%Apple: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-9.6 ptsWriter: 9.6%Apple: 0.0%0.0%

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

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Analysis

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