ralphpnj wrote: > Spoken little a true academic! > > (Lots of headache inducing big words and long sentences with little real > meaning. However the paper and your response does bring to mind those > infamous words that many students live by: Lots of bullshit, piled high > and deep!)
-That the paper gave one forum member a headache doesn't mean it was bad academically. The authors claim in their closing sentence that their subject matter is meaningful because it is new. I don't think that follows. There are plenty of things that have been left unstudied for good reason. Also, I feel that the topic of "Bullshit receptivity" is not as new as they say it is, since it is just another form of deception, which has been studied a lot. It think that the way they introduced the test to the volunteers in Study 1 was itself deceitful and created a false expectation that the statements that the would have to rank were going to be profound to some degree. So, rather than measuring the responses to the BS statements, they ended up measuring whether the subjects believed what they were told going in, which was more of a gullibility test than anything else. I think many of us would fall for a similar set-up, especially given the context that this survey was taking place in an academic institution where certain amount of trust is a reasonable expectation. Given all of this, we shouldn't be too surprised that the average score on the meaningless statements was 2.6. It was quite fun to read this paper, but I personally doubt its usefulness.- Better? I think the meaning of the two versions is about the same. If my first version was a bit dense, keep in mind I had just spent an hour reading that stuff and my mind was tuned to that style of writing. ---------------------- "Dreamer, easy in the chair that really fits you..." ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dsdreamer's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12588 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104729 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
