Using Obfuscating Language, Researchers Examine Those Most Receptive To "Profound Bullshit"

It sounds as if the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, which recently funded the study titled “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit,” is intimately familiar with the financial services industry. In a series of academic studies, researchers said they inserted random vague buzzwords into descriptions that were in fact illogical, but they were nonetheless judged to be profound under an “academic” veil of intelligible language. If you want to cut through the report's own profound bullshit and at times hilarious usage of obfuscating language to prove a point, it can be summed up in a few sentences. Those whose cognitive skills are lacking and don't have the requisite desire or intellect to challenge obfuscating language...