{"id":6522,"date":"2015-12-10T09:04:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T09:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6522"},"modified":"2015-12-10T09:04:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T09:04:25","slug":"the-pseudo-the-profound-and-the-pseudo-profound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2015\/12\/10\/the-pseudo-the-profound-and-the-pseudo-profound\/","title":{"rendered":"The pseudo, the profound and the pseudo-profound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst it's relatively easy to come across bullshit these days as there's so much of it around, do you find there's a worry in the back of the mind that there might sometimes be something\u00a0to it? \u00a0If so, then a recent paper in\u00a0<em>Judgement and Decision Making,\u00a0<\/em>may\u00a0be just what you've been waiting for:\u00a0<em>On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. \u00a0<\/em>The very title makes you wary, however in case it might be bullshit in disguise.<\/p>\n<p>The authors claim that although bullshit is common in everyday life, even attracting attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous)\u00a0has not been subject to empirical investigation. \u00a0In the paper they\u00a0focus on pseudo-profound bullshit, that is\u00a0seemingly impressive assertions that are presented as true and meaningful but are actually vacuous. \u00a0They found that the propensity to judge bullshit\u00a0statements as profound was associated with a variety of conceptually relevant variables. and conclude\u00a0that a bias toward accepting statements as true may be an important component of pseudo-profound bullshit\u00a0receptivity.<\/p>\n<p>The point of all this, perhaps, is to renew the call to bolster the values and skills of skepticism at every turn. \u00a0Meanwhile, read on ...<\/p>\n<p>Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek J. Koehler and Jonathan A. Fugelsang \u00a0(2015)\u00a0On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit. <em>Judgement and Decision Making<\/em>. 10:6 549-563<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/journal.sjdm.org\/15\/15923a\/jdm15923a.pdf<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst it's relatively easy to come across bullshit these days as there's so much of it around, do you find there's a worry in the back of the mind that there might sometimes be something\u00a0to it? \u00a0If so, then a...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-new-publications"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}