Detecting Pseudo-profound BS

Data Skeptic

• Episode: Detecting Pseudo-profound BS
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• Published: 2016-01-15 01:00

A recent paper in the journal of Judgment and Decision Making titled On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit explores empirical questions around a reader's ability to detect statements which may sound profound but are actually a collection of buzzwords that fail to contain adequate meaning or truth. These statements are definitively different from lies and nonesense, as we discuss in the epis