On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit

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 bullshit statements consisting of buzzwords randomly organized into statements with syntactic structure but no discernible meaning (e.g., “Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena”).

#bullshit #pseudo-science #philosophie cc @bug_in :)

Merci, malheureusement j’ai commencé a travaillé, et j’ai du coup moins de temps pour les lectures autres que la préparation des cours que je dois donner.
Mais ça fait effectivement partie des sujets qui m’intéressent :)

doublonné là ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/435335