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		CodiePetersen on April 25, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bullshitters: Who Are They and What Do We Know abo... I have to admit I was wondering after the first couple pages if I was being bullshitted by reading it. Really good though.

coryodaniel on April 25, 2019 [–]

I had the same feeling right around:

> They present experiment participants with “pseudo-profound bullshit” - vacuous statements constructed out of buzzwords - to ascertain when they can differentiate bullshit from meaningful statements and create a Bullshit Receptivity (BSR) scale.

Wouldn’t that be meta.

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