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I dislike bullshitters and I've unfortunately had to work with many. I read the paper and something that really stuck out at me is how bullshitters were more l
by 4ntonius8lock 7y ago
I dislike bullshitters and I've unfortunately had to work with many.
I read the paper and something that really stuck out at me is how bullshitters were more likely to actually try and understand the problem than non bullshitters.
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I think about what might have caused the problem and what I can do to solve it
Non bullshitters: 85%
Bullshitters: 90%
I study a map and work out the best route
Non bullshitters: 55%
Bullshitters: 71%
Interestingly, the non-bullshitters were more likely to try and put off the work to someone else:
I leave it to my brother to worry about how to get there
Non bullshitters: 34%
Bullshitters: 27%
Another shocking thing for me was that bullshitters viewed themselves as having more perseverance and perfectionism:
When confronted with a problem, I give up easily
Non bullshitters: 17%
Bullshitters: 8%
When confronted with a problem, I do more than what is expected of me
Non bullshitters: 28%
Bullshitters: 45%
I really didn't expect this. It's got me thinking.
- eslaught 7y agoI don't find this surprising at all. People who lie, first lie to themselves. In many cases I suspect they're being entirely genuine and don't see where they fall short of their own self-assessment.
- zzbzq 7y agoBut the bullshitters are proven to be bullshitting the survey...
- notahacker 7y agoThe "bullshitter" metric actually used is highly correlated with people trying to choose the "correct" answer to the questions. I'm not sure that people trying to conform to the correct answer in a survey/test is particularly well correlated with what most people would consider "bullshitters" in life though (the guy selling vaporware with fake testimonials, the guy who can confidently talk at great length on a subject without actually saying anything meaningful, the guy that's having lots and lots of sex with amazing girls every night but they all go to another school) who are being creative rather than conformist in how they present themselves. [FWIW it probably also picks up a fair few kids who ticked their familiarity with 'proper numbers' because they studied proper and improper fractions quite recently and understood it very well, though those who [also] asserted familiarity with "subjunctive scaling" have fewer excuses...]