Reverse Psychology Today

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“When the price of CollegeCoin went up past $40,000, I knew there was something wrong with the way we were valuing a college education, but I figured if everybody else was willing to pay that much for it I should buy as much as I can,” an investor told RPT
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The results of this study challenge the status quo, leading to controversy. “This undercuts all the hard work legitimate scientists have done proving life has no meaning,” a Psychologist told RPT. https://t.co/HBrwjwMPtp

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A new study of online dating found that men prefer women who “can’t make them laugh” over women who are funny. This confirmed the researchers hypothesis that men have been sexually selected to feel threatened by women who are funnier than they are.
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An academic crypto expert told RTP, “it just doesn’t translate into real world value.” And many businesses and employers no longer accept CollegeCoin because “people trying to use them are much more likely to be entitled pricks.” https://t.co/3WgWKTb93u

[Cody Moser @LTF_01]

The fact anything like this exists and needs to be packaged in the form of "a study" is the primary reason why people still read Heidegger, why Christians reject science, why postmodernism persists, and basically why all ills in the world find justification in rationalized text.

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@LTF_01 We would like to invite you to submit a letter of response to this article, @LTF_01, so that you can further elaborate on these excellent points.

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“We noticed that people were starting to wonder whether they should just completely give up on life,” said the author of the study, “so we decided to conduct a study to find out whether life has a point or whether it is all just meaningless bullshit.” https://t.co/HBrwjwMhDR

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After nearly three years of people feeling hopeless as they try to deal with the apocalypse while pretending everything is normal, a new study is giving hope to millions ... a research team discovered that life is not actually pointless.

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“This is really a good thing for the field," one of the lead researchers told RPT. "Unfalsifiable hypotheses laid the foundation for psychological science. At least we can be sure that there’s no need to critically evaluate research conducted before 1975.” https://t.co/0EdpSKfGVa

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While the percentage of results that successfully replicated ranged from 10-60% across most fields of psychology, one set of studies passed replication attempts greater than 100% of the time: studies based on hypotheses that were unfalsifiable.

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“The problem is you can’t actually use it to buy anything,” an academic crypto expert told RTP. Many businesses and employers no longer accept CollegeCoin because “people trying to use them are much more likely to be entitled pricks.” https://t.co/3WgWKTaBdW

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People who reviewed a greater number of papers were more likely to report delusions of grandeur. “If I had to rank myself in terms of my contribution to the world, I’d say I’m somewhere between Susan B. Anthony and Jesus," said one professor. https://t.co/hxV3XliBqf

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“Now that we’ve shifted back to the carrier pigeon model, we are finding that a lack of quality peer reviewers is no longer the limiting factor in the review process," a prominent journal editor told RPT. https://t.co/TPv7OvMIb9

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“I don’t want to leave my beach house,” one over-priveleged Full Professor told RPT. Other professors have cited concerns about “having to talk to people again,” and “being required to wear pants.” https://t.co/IVtUgWPLoZ

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Graduate advisors recalled over 700,000 pounds of shitty career advice after complaints of “extraneous materials” including wardrobe-related comments, chunks of sharp glass, recommendations to “stop having babies,” and pieces of hard plastic.
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Preprints "Not As Good As Peer Reviewed Papers" Claims Paper Published on Preprint Server. “if you don’t have to jump through a bunch of semi-arbitrary hoops to please a few chronically fatigued and unpaid reviewers, the papers aren’t going to be as good” https://t.co/cpTqX4y9rj

[Cristina Baciu @CristinaCBaciu]

“I don’t love Zoom meetings, but I also don’t hate being able to mute myself and secretly binge watch Schitt’s Creek in the middle of one.”😂😂😂

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“I don’t want to leave my beach house,” one over-priveleged Full Professor told RPT. Other professors have cited concerns about “having to talk to people again,” and “being required to wear pants.” https://t.co/IVtUgWPLoZ

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@CristinaCBaciu “a male RPT correspondent who received an associate’s degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix provides his expert opinion here” https://t.co/QdzxO4M7L8

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Professors have been constructing a wall to keep lecturers, postdocs & adjunct faculty out of the inner sanctum of academia. However, according to whistle-blowers, they are employing lecturers, postdocs & adjuncts to guard the construction site https://t.co/qMAUh0JhMB