dsdreamer wrote: > Just because a long, detailed paper may give the reader fatigue or a > headache is not an indication that it lacks academic rigor, potentially > quite the opposite. > > On the other hand, the authors' concluding sentence is quite humorously > self-aware: > > > The claim that because an area of study is novel, it is necessarily > meaningful is also a -non sequitur-, and I'm calling bullshit on that > one! There are many things that have not been studied and can be left > unstudied without any loss to the body of human knowledge or wisdom. I > would further suggest that the particular area of Bullshit Receptivity > is -a priori- not sufficiently distinct from other psychological studies > of gullibility for which the literature is abundant. > > I also find some of their methodology flawed: E.g., given a set of > pseudo-profound bullshit statements of equal, but zero merit, it would > be a brave soul who rated them all as "Not at all profound." The human > tendency to rate everything on a curve, played a role here, along with > the reasonable assumption that the prompt for the questions "We are > interested in how people experience the profound." was probably sincere, > given the academic setting. That deceitful introductory rubric to Study > 1 was a pure gullibility test, and the average response of 2.6 on that > study measured the subjects' receptivity to the set-up, and general > trust of academic institutions more than it did to the nonsense the > followed. > > My summary: quite entertaining, but not useful.
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