auxien Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 http://gizmodo.com/scientists-are-still-arguing-about-that-chopra-bullshit-1762272253 As Gizmodo’s Matt Novak reported last fall, Gordon Pennycook and his Waterloo colleagues took a 2014 Chopra tweet, “and presented it to study participants along with randomly generated statements that employed profound-sounding buzzwords. The statements made sense grammatically, but made absolutely no sense logically.” Chopra’s tweet was indistinguishable from the randomly generated nonsense. And the less skeptical and analytical the participant, the more likely he or she was to interpret random nonsense as being deeply profound. Unsurprising, but it's interesting to see it actually studied. One study of course doesn't stand for much on its own, but worth mentioning....it at least seemed relevant to WATMM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hello spiral Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 in b4 ayy kyema/murphy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 http://gizmodo.com/scientists-are-still-arguing-about-that-chopra-bullshit-1762272253 As Gizmodo’s Matt Novak reported last fall, Gordon Pennycook and his Waterloo colleagues took a 2014 Chopra tweet, “and presented it to study participants along with randomly generated statements that employed profound-sounding buzzwords. The statements made sense grammatically, but made absolutely no sense logically.” Chopra’s tweet was indistinguishable from the randomly generated nonsense. And the less skeptical and analytical the participant, the more likely he or she was to interpret random nonsense as being deeply profound. Unsurprising, but it's interesting to see it actually studied. One study of course doesn't stand for much on its own, but worth mentioning....it at least seemed relevant to WATMM. This is also relevant to watmm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke viia Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 did he really say that, it reminds me of that statement generating program that matched them with pictures that we had a thread about last year. although the algorithm probably wouldn't make a series of statements and then call them questions. maybe, i don't know, it was pretty amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 seems like the shitpost bot.. didn't we all lose our mind in the dank meme thread over this? as much as i like the internet, stuff like this makes it.. a cruel experience. diesel engines are profound. one must ask whether to mcdonalds. signature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Braintree Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 Liartown USA totally nailed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delet... Posted March 3, 2016 Share Posted March 3, 2016 that site needs to win an oscar or something, really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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