Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit

http://gizmodo.com/scientists-are-still-arguing-about-that-chopra-bullshit-1762272253

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As Gizmodo’s Matt Novak reported last fall, Gordon Pennycook and his Waterloo colleagues took a 2014 Chopra tweet, “and presented it to study participants along with randomly generated statements that employed profound-sounding buzzwords. The statements made sense grammatically, but made absolutely no sense logically.”

 

Chopra’s tweet was indistinguishable from the randomly generated nonsense. And the less skeptical and analytical the participant, the more likely he or she was to interpret random nonsense as being deeply profound.

Unsurprising, but it's interesting to see it actually studied. One study of course doesn't stand for much on its own, but worth mentioning....it at least seemed relevant to WATMM.

in b4 ayy kyema/murphy

  On 3/3/2016 at 7:24 AM, auxien said:

http://gizmodo.com/scientists-are-still-arguing-about-that-chopra-bullshit-1762272253

 

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As Gizmodo’s Matt Novak reported last fall, Gordon Pennycook and his Waterloo colleagues took a 2014 Chopra tweet, “and presented it to study participants along with randomly generated statements that employed profound-sounding buzzwords. The statements made sense grammatically, but made absolutely no sense logically.”

 

Chopra’s tweet was indistinguishable from the randomly generated nonsense. And the less skeptical and analytical the participant, the more likely he or she was to interpret random nonsense as being deeply profound.

 

Unsurprising, but it's interesting to see it actually studied. One study of course doesn't stand for much on its own, but worth mentioning....it at least seemed relevant to WATMM.

This is also relevant to watmm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

did he really say that, it reminds me of that statement generating program that matched them with pictures that we had a thread about last year.

although the algorithm probably wouldn't make a series of statements and then call them questions. maybe, i don't know, it was pretty amazing.

seems like the shitpost bot.. didn't we all lose our mind in the dank meme thread over this?

as much as i like the internet, stuff like this makes it.. a cruel experience. diesel engines are profound. one must ask whether to mcdonalds.

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Liartown USA totally nailed it.

that site needs to win an oscar or something, really.