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People with lower cognitive ability more likely to fall for pseudo-profound bullshit
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If you take out 'unparalleled', the sentence “Hidden meaning transforms unparalleled abstract beauty” makes sense... Generating a sentence from random buzz-words doesn't make it meaningless...
For those downvoting: imagine you look at an abstract painting. It's beautiful, but you don't know what it is. Then someone tells you it's a vulva. Now you can't unsee it. The abstract beauty has been transformed by hidden meaning...
The same goes for "thoughts can influence physical objects." If they couldn't, you wouldn't be able to move your hand to scratch your ass when it gets itchy.
I know what they are trying to say with these sentences and would absolutely get the answers right on their test. But I would get them right because I know what they want for an answer. This is sloppy research, and the correlation between intelligence and correct answers on their test is very likely due to theory of mind and meta-cognitive reasoning...
This article is pseudo-profound bullshit.