{"id":2883,"date":"2018-01-02T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T22:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2018-01-02T09:21:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T22:21:49","slug":"hello-newer-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/hello-newer-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello newer year"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s start this year with a delightful publication to set the scene for 2018:
\n“On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit<\/a>” <\/strong>
\nby Gordon Pennycook, Jonathan A. Fugelsang et al <\/em>in ‘Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 10, No. 6, November 2015, pp. 549\u2013563’
\n<\/em>
\nAbstract<\/strong>
\nAlthough bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its (critical or ingenuous) reception has not, to our knowledge, been subject to empirical investigation. Here we focus on pseudo-profound bullshit, which consists of seemingly impressive assertions that are presented as true and meaningful but are actually vacuous. We presented participants with bullshit statements consisting of buzzwords randomly organized into statements with syntactic structure but no discernible meaning (e.g., \u201cWholeness quiets infinite phenomena\u201d). Across multiple studies, the propensity to judge bullshit statements as profound was associated with a variety of conceptually relevant variables (e.g., intuitive cognitive style, supernatural belief). Parallel associations were less evident among profundity judgments for more conventionally profound (e.g., \u201cA wet person does not fear the rain\u201d) or mundane (e.g., \u201cNewborn babies require constant attention\u201d) statements. These results support the idea that some people are more receptive to this type of bullshit and that detecting it is not merely a matter of indiscriminate skepticism but rather a discernment of deceptive vagueness in otherwise impressive sounding claims. Our results also suggest that a bias toward accepting statements as true may be an important component of pseudo-profound bullshit receptivity.
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Let’s start this year with a delightful publication to set the scene for 2018: “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit” by Gordon Pennycook, Jonathan A. Fugelsang et al in ‘Judgment and Decision Making, Vol. 10, No. 6, November 2015, pp. 549\u2013563’ Abstract Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[45,22],"class_list":["post-2883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about","category-stuff-that-matters","tag-bullshit-detection","tag-collective-delusions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2890,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions\/2890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irisherself.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}