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On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit [pdf]
- DiabloD3 11y agoDamn, you beat me to linking it by 2 minutes. :D
- calebm 11y ago"The precise reasons that people see profundity in vague buzzwords or syntactic but completely random sentences are unknown." Here is my guess: people probably find that understanding profound sayings does tend to involve more thinking than other sentences... so people probably come to associate having to think about a sentence more with profundity.