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061 - Mindfulness - Michael Taft

You Are Not So Smart

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You're Not So Smart - The Secret Sounding Smart Using Simple Language

A series of studies out of UCLA led by Daniel M Oppenheimer seems to show that the longer the words that people use, like the longer they are in length, the more letters in them. People rated the simplified dissertations as being written by more intelligent authors than did they with the original versions. The reason for this is unclear, but the speculation is that it probably has something to do with the same things that work in the availability heuristic.

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