神经科学与心理学2018journals.plos.org
对胡扯的敏感度预测亲社会行为
Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior
进阶 · 约 35 分钟读完前置知识:基础统计学、心理学实验设计、问卷与量表基础
导读
这篇发表在 PLOS ONE 上的论文研究的是:人们对"伪深刻废话"(pseudo-profound bullshit,即看似深奥实则空洞的句子)的敏感度,是否与亲社会行为相关。研究沿用了废话接受度量表的思路,让被试判断一组句子的"深刻程度",并测量其亲社会倾向,结论倾向于认为越能识破废话的人,越可能表现出亲社会行为。
HN 关注点:研究主题本身自带话题性,加上评论者用论文的题目反过来调侃"这篇论文自己是不是废话",引发了对测量效度和实验材料的讨论。
HN 评论精选
这几条评论里:质疑 3 补充 1
补充复刻论文的判断任务,让读者亲自体验区分深刻句与废话句有多难。
如果你还没读论文,可以做一简单自我实验:找出下面哪些句子是废话。按顺序作答,不要提前看后面的内容,也不要回头改答案(以复现实验条件)。比如"河流切开岩石,不是因为力量,而是因为坚持""隐藏的意义转化了抽象的美""健康与宽容为未来提供创造力"等共 14 句。答案见论文表 1 的链接。这里不对实验(研究者的或你自己的)的有效性作任何主张,纯粹出于好奇提出。
duopixel查看英文原文
A simple self-experiment if you haven't read the paper, find which of these sentences are bullshit. Answer in order without reading further ahead, and don't go back to change your answers (as to replicate experimental conditions). * 1. A river cuts through a rock, not because of its power but it's persistence. 2. The hidden meaning transforms the abstract beauty. 3. The future elucidates irrational facts for the seeking person. 4. You are not only responsible for the things you say, but also for the things that you do not say. 5. Health and tolerance provides creativity for the future. 6. We have other flaws before our eyes, but our own flaws behind our back. 7. Your teacher can open the door, but you have to step in. 8. Your movement transforms universal observations. 9. The person who never made a mistake never tried something new. 10. The whole silence infinite phenomena. 11. Imagined pain does not hurt less because it is imagined. 12. The invisible is beyond all new immutability. 13. The unexplainable touches on the inherent experiences of the universe. 14. It is one thing to be tempted, but quite another to fall for the temptation. * Here are the answers for self-assessment: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/figure/image?size=large&id=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0201474.t001 No claim is made on the validity of the experiment (the researchers' or your own). Proposed in the name of curiosity!
质疑用论文标题本身开玩笑,质疑其结论是否也只是听起来深刻的废话。
我觉得这像是对读者的一个元层面测试。伪深刻的废话式陈述:"废话敏感度预测亲社会行为"——读者能分辨这是一篇废话论文还是一篇深刻论文吗?
folli查看英文原文
I feel like this is some meta-level test for the reader. Pseudo-profound bullshit statement: "Bullshit-sensitivity predicts prosocial behavior"; can the reader distinguish this bullshit paper from a profound paper?
质疑批评实验材料效度:废话句太好识破、深刻句太平庸,同时肯定研究本身和表 2 的价值。
我对这些句子的选取有点困惑:那些废话句几乎读不出语法意义,而所谓"深刻"的句子老实说相当平庸,听起来就像 Etsy 上卖的帆布袋上印的话。不过我觉得这项研究挺有意思,尤其是表 2 信息量很大!
awild查看英文原文
I am slightly confused by the selection of those sentences, the bullshit sentences barely make grammatical sense, while the profound sentences are honestly pretty banal and sound like things you'd find written on tote-bags sold in etsy stores. I found the study pretty interesting especially table 2 is extremely informative!
质疑调侃废话句可以轻易批量生产,暗含对刺激材料是否足够有代表性的质疑。
科学家们!我毛遂自荐,能写出比你们用营销材料喂戏仿生成器造出来的更好的废话。请看:"未知逃离不可信之物""没被听见的大象从来不是绿色""许多人寻找苹果,却少有人寻找道路""判断就像咀嚼昂贵的橡胶""圆是有意的方"。
JulianMorrison查看英文原文
Scientists! I offer my services as an author of better bullshit than you can create by feeding a parody generator with marketing materials. Observe! - The unknown flees from the implausible. - Unheard elephants are never green. - Although many people seek apples, few seek the road. - Judgement is like chewing on expensive rubber. - A circle is a square with intention.
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