Kein Bullshit: Laut einer Studie der University of Waterloo/Kanada fallen Menschen, die viel Bullshit erzählen, auch selber oft auf Bullshit herein.
https://uwaterloo.ca/news/medi…s-are-more-likely-fall-bs
QuoteIn a series of studies conducted with over 800 participants from the US and Canada, 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. Participants also completed measures of cognitive ability, metacognitive insight, intellectual overconfidence, and reflective thinking.
“We found that the more frequently someone engages in persuasive bullshitting, the more likely they are to be duped by various types of misleading information regardless of their cognitive ability, engagement in reflective thinking, or metacognitive skills,” Littrell said. “Persuasive BSers seem to mistake superficial profoundness for actual profoundness. So, if something simply sounds profound, truthful, or accurate to them that means it really is. But evasive bullshitters were much better at making this distinction.”
The research may help shed light on the processes underlying the spread of some types of misinformation, which could have important implications for the fight against this growing problem.
