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People Who Love Nonsense Insprtn Quotes Are Less Intelligent
Study Finds People Who Fall For Nonsense Inspirational Quotes Are Less Intelligent
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Have you ever found yourself scrolling through a social media feed and all of a sudden stumbling upon a quote like: “By evolving, we exist.”
And at first you’re like Oh, that’s nice and a second later, you find yourself confused?
That is because the above quote is complete ********. In fact, it was generated by a website called “New Age ******** Generator,” a site that randomly creates phony, spiritual, Tumblr-esque aphorisms for geeky amusement.
When Ph.D. candidate Gordon Pennycook stumbled on the site, he found it profoundly entertaining -- at first. But then he got a little disturbed:
"I thought, 'I wonder if people would actually rate such blatant ******** as profound,'" he told The Huffington Post. "The study sort of went from there."
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They found that people who are receptive to this kind of “pseudo-intellectual ********” are less intelligent than those who aren't. The study also found that they tend to have strong religious beliefs, are not reflective and are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, alternative medicine and the paranormal.
“The basic idea is that people who are more intelligent should be better able to detect that the statements are ********," Pennycook told The Huffington Post. "And, similarly, that people that are more skeptical about supernatural claims should be more skeptical about the ******** that we presented to them.”
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000063
NOT this study shaded both Tumblr and Britney 
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