People who frequently try to impress or persuade others with misleading exaggerations and distortions are themselves more likely to be fooled by impressive-sounding misinformation, new research from the University of Waterloo shows. The researchers found that people who frequently engage in “persuasive bullshitting” were actually quite poor at identifying it. Specifically,
  • Endward23@futurology.todayEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I really hope this impressiv and “scientific sounding” headline is more than just another example of the named effect. ;-)

    In a series of studies conducted with over 800 participants from the US and Canada, the researchers examined the relations between participants’ self-reported engagement in both types of BSing and their ratings of how profound, truthful, or accurate they found pseudo-profound and pseudo-scientific statements and fake news headlines.

    Selfreporting. And this 800 participants, where are they from? Students?