The ZINNG: How Profound
By Crime HQ
December 8, 2015Pennycook’s Poppycock – A new scientific study has been released in Judgment and Decision Making that is garnering headlines (most of them overblown, sensationalist, and reactionary) that attempts to measure peoples’ susceptibility to “pseudo-profound bullshit.” Gordon Pennycook and colleagues used a sentence generator that takes words and phrases lifted straight from Deepak Chopra’s Twitter feed…