Posted on 06/23/2021 9:55:13 AM PDT by weston
well how about that, I just are some ice cream.
I never could get back on Parler after they were supposedly up and running again.
I have tried over and over to get the CODE that is needed to finish signing up for GETTR.
I may try again tomorrow or maybe not.
Research says your ability to ‘bulls-—’ may be a sign of intelligence
Your ability to BS your way through life may be a sign of intelligence, according to a recent study.
“If someone is a good bulls——er, they are likely quite smart,” says Martin Turpin, a graduate student at the Reasoning and Decision Making Lab at the Unversity of Waterloo and co-lead on the study recently published in the scientific journal Evolutionary Psychology.
Turpin and his colleagues found that people who are better at producing believable explanations for concepts, even when those explanations aren’t based on fact, typically score better on intelligence tests than those who struggle to “bulls-—,” as the study puts it.
“However, it is not the case that those who are not good bulls——ers are less intelligent,” Turpin says.
Turpin says just like having a sense of humor is linked to intelligence, many smart people are not funny. “The same could be said of bulls——ing,” he says.
For the study, researchers described a “bullsh-—er” as someone who “is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false...He does not care whether the things he says describe reality correctly. He just picks them out, or makes them up, to suit his purpose.”
To conduct the study, researchers used 1,017 participants across two separate studies that examined the subjects’ willingness to BS, how good they were at it and their overall cognitive ability.
To measure subjects’ ability to BS, each person was asked about 10 “concepts” with names like “Sexual Selection Theory” and “General Relativity” — some were real concepts and some were made up. Participants rated their knowledge of each using a five-point scale ranging from “never heard of it” to “know it well, understand the concept.”
“Responses given to fake concepts were summed to create an index of participants’ bulls-— willingness, with higher scores indicating a greater tendency to bulls-—,” the study said.
Participants were then asked to produce the most convincing explanations — not based on facts — for the concepts. A group of “bulls-— raters” scored each participant’s explanations on two five-point scales, one based on how convincing the answers were and one on how satisfying. (The ratings ranged from “not at all” to “very.”) The average ratings determined the participant’s ability to bulls-—.
Researchers also measured each subject’s cognitive ability via various tests, including a vocabulary test.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/30/your-ability-to-bulls-may-be-sign-of-intelligence-study.html
I think his handle may be @realTrump
I see that account is still up.
🤷♀️
IIRC this term is to be McTurtles last or was that just wishful thinking?
Thanks for the reminder.
I’ll have to make sure each day counts.
Look who’s there, already.....
il Donaldo Trumpo
@ilPresidento
😂
Thank you, me too!
How come everybody is able to sign up but me?
I’m taking it personally and am offended!!! LOL
No trouble getting on, but Mrs. exit82 is having issues.
I think the site is just getting overwhelmed.
Keep trying. I got right in.
Do you have a different browser you can try with?
Turtle is going to die standing up in the Senate at the podium.
Trouble is, no one will be able to tell for a few hours.
😂😂 😵
I think the problem with Parler was that the entire platform was hosted on servers that were not under Parler’s control. Thus the third party could shut them down
You don’t necessarily need the app to use GETTR.
I see the shills and trolls have already found GETTR.
That’s OK, I quit responding on Twitter in 1/9, deleted my account, and started a new one just to be able to see what is happening.
I need the practice.
MAIL.
I hope they shoe those peeps off, fast!
We don’t need any more of them, do we?
If you find any other good accounts to follow (beside RPOTUS), please let me know :)
I wonder if Emerald Robinson is there, yet.
@EmeraldRobinson
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Can't wait for AG Merrick Garland to launch a DOJ investigation of New York City's Democratic primary for mayor. Secret meetings! Fake ballots! Delayed counting! The works!
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