On the Reception and Detection of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit

[Iroscato]

One of the main upshots of the paper (or at least the first five pages I've been able to get through at work) is that it takes some mental processing work to parse or comprehend a statement, it takes additional work to determine whether the statement needs higher scrutiny, and then it takes more work to determine if the statement is bullshit.  Basically, it's a three step process, and a lot of people are too mentally unprepared or lazy to go beyond step one.

That's overly generous. I've seen plenty who utterly fail to grasp step 1.