<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The generator created nonsense sentences that sounded profound to a nonthinker.  Over 98% of the Ss believed at least one of the generated bs statements.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">We believe what we want to believe;  we hear what we want to hear; we distort our information to fit what we already think; we will trust a person more the more often we hear or read his name (think of how many times you saw Trump in the news - papers, magazines, online - when a person votes, they often pull the lever for the person who is most familiar to them, sometimes called a priming effect - all worked for Trump)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">WE seriously need to address the BS plethora and the skepticism lack in our students and populace.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://aeon.co/ideas/why-bullshit-is-no-laughing-matter?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=691adaf4c3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-691adaf4c3-68993993">https://aeon.co/ideas/why-bullshit-is-no-laughing-matter?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=691adaf4c3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-691adaf4c3-68993993</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div>