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Trying to kind of figure out the features of this sort of thing. 1. Talks quickly. 2. Fairly good mastery of appropriate buzz words. 3. Very much focused on th
by reader5000 14y ago
Trying to kind of figure out the features of this sort of thing.
1. Talks quickly.
2. Fairly good mastery of appropriate buzz words.
3. Very much focused on the narrative "and then this was discovered and then this" rather actual analysis of any given topic.
4. Never particularly makes any claims other than the broadest generalities.
Has the guy ever read mainstream scientific analysis?
It's kind of like timecube, where the guy just repeats over and over amazing claims without really saying anything else. It's a very weird phenomena, but kind of makes me wonder what the exact difference between this and "real" science is. It's not really the truth/falsity of the claims being made, since the claims are so general or otherwise incoherent I'm not sure they have a truth/falsity.
- petercooper 14y agoThere's a related effect called the Dr Fox Effect: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Fox_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Fox_effect .. it's not exactly what you're describing, but looks at the correspondance between speaker expressiveness and the likelihood of the audience to believe what they're saying, even if it's nonsense.
- codemac 14y agoThe talk reminded me of Rives 4.a.m. talk, only without the humor. http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_on_4_a_m.html http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_on_4_a_m.html
- cookingrobot 14y agoThe artist Reggie Watts gave a great performance at TED where he talks a lot but makes no sense. It's pretty entertaining as a spoof of these kind of fake-intellectual lectures. http://laughingsquid.com/reggie-watts-talk-at-ted/ http://laughingsquid.com/reggie-watts-talk-at-ted/