[troutman]

Why Do Some People Find Deepak Chopra Quotes Deep And Not Dung?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/emilywil...-and-not-dung/

In what may well be the first-ever paper to evaluate susceptibility to pseudo-profound BS, Gordon Pennycook and colleagues have found that people who are more susceptible to BS score lower for verbal and fluid intelligence, are more prone to “conspiratorial ideation,” and more likely to “endorse complementary and alternative medicine.” Their paper, “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bull####,” was published in November in the journal Judgment and Decision Making.