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Tuesday, 13 August 2024

Something's getting a bit fishy


Out of interest I coped the Future Directions paragraphs from the previous Curiouser and Curiouser post into the BlaBlaMeter. Here's the output.


 Your text: 965 characters, 129 words

Bullshit Index :0.46
Something's getting a bit fishy. You probably want to sell something, or you're trying to impress somebody. It still may be an acceptable result for a scientific text.

Here's the text I used -


Future directions

Given the highly beneficial role of curiosity in childhood growth and development across both information-gathering and emotional spectrums, future research should focus on elucidating novel metrics for measuring the characteristic, thereby allowing for comparisons between studies and, in turn, the discovery and optimization of methodologies to foster/promote its persistence across childhood.

The present review suggests three primary means by which to achieve this goal. Firstly, metacognition frameworks should be further developed to operationalize internal curiosity in isolation or combined with external curiosity/interest. Secondly, research questions should be refined to more adequately explore curiosity across different physical and social contexts. Finally, curiosity should be assessed in non-US populations and particularly in minority communities to broaden our understanding of the cultural determinants and variability in the characteristics.

2 comments:

dearieme said...

Talking of "a bit fishy" I've just come across this, concerning the Trump assassination attempt: "It was the first time counter snipers were assigned to a Trump reelection event ..."

The journalist doesn't seem to realise its significance. It means that the Secret Service was part of the plot and wanted to kill the patsy as soon as he had fired his shots.

A K Haart said...

dearieme - it is a bit fishy. They appear to have nailed him remarkably quickly and permanently too, so no chance of an explanation beyond the official one.