> the researchers examined the relations between participants’ self-reported engagement in both types of BSing and their ratings of how profound, truthful, or a

> the researchers examined the relations between participants’ self-reported engagement in both types of BSing and their ratings of how profound, truthful, or accurate they found pseudo-profound and pseudo-scientific statements and fake news headlines If I understand correctly, they simply asked the participants themselves if they are BS’ing and drew the conclusions solely from that? How do you expect people BS’ing others would admit doing that?