{"id":1198,"date":"2016-10-08T04:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T09:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2016-10-08T04:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T09:38:00","slug":"on-the-reception-and-detection-of-pseudo-profound-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2016\/10\/08\/on-the-reception-and-detection-of-pseudo-profound-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I first thought this was a joke, but it isn&#8217;t. Someone actually ran a study about how well people can detect bullshit. And the result is a wonderfully-written paper (which I&#8217;ll <a href=\"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Bullshit-detection.pdf\">copy here<\/a>, because <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.sjdm.org\/15\/15923a\/jdm15923a.pdf\">the original<\/a> will probably get its URL changed).<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t finished reading it yet (my attention span isn&#8217;t what it used to be) but I&#8217;m posting it here because it&#8217;s clearly an impressive piece of work and is so relevant today, when it seems that you bump into idiots professing the truth no matter where you turn your ears.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the authors for getting it done! I&#8217;m sure they had to jump through many hoops to have their project approved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first thought this was a joke, but it isn&#8217;t. Someone actually ran a study about how well people can detect bullshit. And the result is a wonderfully-written paper (which I&#8217;ll copy here, because the original will probably get its URL changed). I haven&#8217;t finished reading it yet (my attention span isn&#8217;t what it used &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-1198","6":"format-standard","7":"category-safeforseneca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}