Shane Littrell, Evan F. Risko, & Jonathan A. Fugelsang of the Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, ON, Canada) published an article in the British Journal of Social Psychology (Wiley) titled ‘You can’t bullshit a bullshitter’ (or can you?): Bullshitting frequency predicts receptivity to various types of misleading information (4 February 2021).
Continue reading “the propensity to produce bullshit and the tendency to fall for bullshit”pseudo-profound bullshit
Jennifer Ouellette wrote an article for Ars Technica titled “Abstract art with ‘pseudo-profound’ BS titles seen as more meaningful“.
Creative Quality to BS graph
Sebastian Groebner tweeted a graphic explaining the negative correlation “between the amount of fancy words/titles/BS jargon an agency uses and the quality of the work.” Continue reading “Creative Quality to BS graph”
Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology
Noah Haber wrote a blog post titled Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology. Continue reading “Flatten the Curve of Armchair Epidemiology”
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