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Pseudo-bullshit correlates with stupidity, shocker

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Pseudo-bullshit correlates with stupidity, shocker
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Pseudo-bullshit correlates with stupidity, shocker
March 3, 2016 at 5:58 am (This post was last modified: March 3, 2016 at 6:01 am by Excited Penguin.)
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RE: Pseudo-bullshit correlates with stupidity, shocker
March 3, 2016 at 6:06 am (This post was last modified: March 3, 2016 at 6:09 am by robvalue.)
It's amazing how quickly people can dismiss things they've only just heard about in favour of their unsupported nonsense.
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RE: Pseudo-bullshit correlates with stupidity, shocker
March 3, 2016 at 12:07 pm
Deepak Chopra is a putz. I admire his ability to make filthy lucre off his shtick, however.
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March 3, 2016 at 12:41 pm
(March 3, 2016 at 6:06 am)robvalue Wrote: It's amazing how quickly people can dismiss things they've only just heard about in favour of their unsupported nonsense.

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RE: Pseudo-bullshit correlates with stupidity, shocker
March 3, 2016 at 12:43 pm
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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RE: Pseudo-bullshit correlates with stupidity, shocker
March 3, 2016 at 12:51 pm
He should peddle that bullshit to these kids.

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RE: Pseudo-bullshit correlates with stupidity, shocker
March 3, 2016 at 7:24 pm
Deepak Chopra's the embodiment of that one kid in class who cannot make a coherent argument so instead resorts to using sophisticated words in attempt of having his argument appear as such.
Which is better:
To die with ignorance, or to live with intelligence?

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RE: Pseudo-bullshit correlates with stupidity, shocker
March 3, 2016 at 7:46 pm
Deepak successfully lives his life by one rule.

IF YOU CAN'T DAZZLE THEM WITH BRILLIANCE,
THEN BAFFLE THEM WITH BULLSHIT.
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RE: Pseudo-bullshit correlates with stupidity, shocker
March 3, 2016 at 8:15 pm (This post was last modified: March 3, 2016 at 8:16 pm by Excited Penguin.)
Quote: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.

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RE: Pseudo-bullshit correlates with stupidity, shocker
March 4, 2016 at 1:22 pm
That's so deep.
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