Why the smartest person you know is watching Love Island

Reality TV is often dismissed as ‘mindless entertainment’, but the genre offers a rare, raw insight into the idiosyncrasies of human behaviour 

Why the smartest person you know is watching Love Island
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At a recent dinner party with a med student, a PhD student, and a novelist, the most animated (and polarising) discussion of the night centred on which couple should be eliminated from the villa on Love Island. Alliances were dissected. Motivations were questioned. Character assessments were pored over. While we eventually agreed on a few contenders for most dumpable couple, consensus didn’t comehellip;

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