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> There's something uncanny and compelling about these randomly generated nothing statements. They feel substantive at first.. "I wondered if people actually thought these were profound," #Pennycook tells me.. the average participant rated the gibberish as being between "somewhat profound" and "fairly profound." (Responses to these fake tweets were nearly indistinguishable from the responses to #Chopra's real tweets).
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2015/12/3/9844480/why-people-believe-bullshit-science
#ChatGPT? #BrianResnick #GordPennycock #OnBullshit