On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit Gordon Pennycook* James Allan Cheyne# Nathaniel Barr$ Derek J. Koehler$ Jonathan A. Fugelsang$ Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (c ritical or ingenuous) has not, to our knowledge, been

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who published “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit” on the last issue of Judgement and Decision Making. The study resonated across lots of media , and for a quite obvious reason: it tells us something many of us – the ones of us who like to think of themselves as rational, clear-minded individuals – always The study, titled On The Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit, which went on to win the annual spoof Ig Nobel Peace Prize, surveyed 800 people, and found that those most receptive Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) 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… Paper: On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit - Page 1 EEVblog Electronics Community Forum A Free & Open Forum For Electronics Enthusiasts & Professionals On Bullshit Bullshit (BS) is often interpreted as nonsensical facts. The use of empty words is a common characteristic of BS. The term is generally used as a placeholder for contexts like humbug, knickknack, frippery or mumbo jumbo. BS always has something arbitrary and is characterized by vagueness.

On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit

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., “Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena”). On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. Judgment and Decision Making, 10(6), 549–563.

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Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) 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.

On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit

Handle: RePEc:jdm:journl:v:10:y:2015:i:6:p:549-563 Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) 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. Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) 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.
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This qualifies as bullshit under Frankfurt's broad definition because the content is being communicated absent a concern for the truth. Nonetheless, the character of conversational bullshit is likely quite different from pseudo-profound bullshit, and by extension the reception and detection of it may be determined by different psychological factors.

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The startling possibility with respect to pseudo-profound bullshit is that people will first accept the bullshit as true (or meaningful) and, depending on downstream cognitive mechanisms such as conflict detection (discussed below), either retain a default sense of meaningfulness or invoke deliberative reasoning to assess the truth (or meaningfulness) of the proposition. On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit By gregladen on November 30, 2015.

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Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) 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.

Unlike response bias, this mechanism involves distinguishing bullshit from non-bullshit. This qualifies as bullshit under Frankfurt's broad definition because the content is being communicated absent a concern for the truth. Nonetheless, the character of conversational bullshit is likely quite different from pseudo-profound bullshit, and by extension the reception and detection of it may be determined by different psychological factors. The difference between profundity ratings between legitimately meaningful quotations and pseudo-profound bullshit will serve as our measures of bullshit sensitivity.

to what the authors termed “pseudo-profound bullshit”, a conceptual area strongly related between bullshit detection and cognitive style, which have been confirmed by Pennycook These do not, however, justify uncritical reception

Judgment and Decision Making, 10(6), 549-563. Levitt, S. (2012, January 5). Fake deep (fausse profondeur en français) est une expression caractérisant des contenus qui L'expression pseudo profound bullshit recoupe partiellement le fake deep : elle désigne un ensemble de A. Fugelsang, « On the receptio In 2016, Gordon won an Ig Nobel Prize for his work titled "On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit.” Gordon was also named the Poynter Dalton, C. (2016). Bullshit for you; transcendence for me.

On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. may not lead to the detection and reception of pseudo-profound bullshit, it is useful to consider a. Dual Processing Model. In this model thinking processes are 1 Oct 2019 “On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit”. (The study was published in the journal Judgment and Decision Making, vol.