Week 15 Ten Commandments of UN s cientific thinking in psychology Week 15 Deepak Chopra In your online questionnaire Week 2 you judged a series of statements whether they were profound or not ID: 604020
Download Presentation The PPT/PDF document "Ten Commandments of scientific thinking ..." is the property of its rightful owner. Permission is granted to download and print the materials on this web site for personal, non-commercial use only, and to display it on your personal computer provided you do not modify the materials and that you retain all copyright notices contained in the materials. By downloading content from our website, you accept the terms of this agreement.
Slide1
Ten Commandments of scientific thinking in psychology
Week 15Slide2
Ten Commandments of
UNscientific thinking in psychology
Week 15Slide3
Deepak Chopra
In your online questionnaire (Week 2), you judged a series of statements whether they were profound or not.
Some were generated using the Online Bullshit Generator (
http
://sebpearce.com/bullshit
/
)
Some were from original Deepak Chopra’s tweets
Some were modified from Deepak Chopra’s tweets, by inserting ‘hope’Slide4
Online Bullshit Generator
In Week 3, we discussed “colorless ideas sleep furiously”, a grammatically correct but semantically empty phrase.
The Online Bullshit Generator works the same way, except that the nouns in them are catchy “new age” words.
Try it here:
http
://sebpearce.com/bullshit
/Slide5
Why do people believe in bulls***?
We don’t know for sure, but according to Pennycock
et al (2015)…
People have a tendency to judge bulls*** statements as profound
People who judge them as profound tend to display
ontological confusions
Pennycook et al. (2015).
On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound
bullshit.
Judg
Dec Making.
Slide6
As promised: Back to Week 2
- What did we find?
We measured your tendency to feel hopeless. For example:
“I
might as well give up because there’s nothing I can do to make things better for
me”
“I
happen to be particularly lucky and I expect to get more of the good things in life than the average
person”
“I
never get what I want, so it’s foolish to want
anything”
People who feel hopeless tend to think that bull**** statements of hope as more profound.Slide7
Your task
In the following videos, identify the tactics (“Commandments”) Deepak chopra
uses to confuse (convince?) his audience between what is scientific and what
is unscientific.
As you watch the video, jot down these “Commandments” on a piece of paper.
Ready?Slide8Slide9Slide10Slide11
Commandments of unscientific thinking
Thou shalt (not)…Slide12
Take home message for the entire
course
Psychology is a science
But what is science and what is
nonscience is not always clear
This ambiguity has to do with the entire scientific enterprise, and is not per se peculiar to psychology
The aim of this course has never been to teach you what was science or
nonscience
per se
It was to teach you
how to judge
if something is science or
nonscience
.