People often talk about reality TV in terms of how ‘trashy’ it is, and how it might be considered ‘guilty’ viewing. But is there any evidence of harm taking place?
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 145. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 February 2026.
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Altmetric has tracked 34,447,360 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 213,312 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.9. This one has done well, scoring higher than 79% of its peers.
