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RE: University of Arizona Looking to Help People Detect Bad Science
Interesting idea, and I do find myself hoping it will work, to some degree. But I am also skeptical in that it might be an uphill battle to overcome certain aspects of human nature, particularly those that tend towards people wanting reality to be interesting and entertaining rather than "boring and factual."
There are valid psychological reasons why rags like the National Enquirer have the highest subscription rates. "Elvis was abducted by Aliens and now lives in lost Atlantis!" is FAR more interesting to a LOT of people than "Elvis died and his ashes are in an urn."
By the way, my wife's a psychic. No, really...
if it helps maybe it might contribute to lowering the # of people that get scammed and cat fished online yearly ¯_(ツ)_/¯😜