{"id":8822,"date":"2017-08-04T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T21:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8822"},"modified":"2017-08-04T12:50:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T16:50:16","slug":"renowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2017\/08\/04\/renowned\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saw a Facebook post claiming “…\u00c2\u00a0a renowned psychologist believes that…” which made me curious. Such a psychologist ought to have thousands of academic journal citations. So, I looked up the name on Google Scholar and saw one to five. The most highly\u00c2\u00a0cited stuff was about metaphysical stuff that psychologists refute.<\/p>\n

Roy F. Baumeister<\/a> is what I would call a renowned psychologist. His motivation article has over 13,000 citations. His ego-depletion, which is where I know him, has almost 4,000. People know about his work and cite his in their own. That is renowned.<\/p>\n

The thing that prompted this is clickbait\u00c2\u00a0pseudoscience bullshit. Calling the creator renowned is Appeal to Authority so probably quite effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saw a Facebook post claiming “…\u00c2\u00a0a renowned psychologist believes that…” which made me curious. Such a psychologist ought to have thousands of academic journal citations. So, I looked up the name on Google Scholar and saw one to five. The most highly\u00c2\u00a0cited stuff was about metaphysical stuff that psychologists refute. Roy F. Baumeister is what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3232],"tags":[3302,3077,3199,1880,3303],"class_list":["post-8822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pseudoscience","tag-bullshit","tag-clickbait","tag-pseudoscience","tag-psychologist","tag-roy-f-baumeister"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1rUBW-renowned","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}