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- Jan 17, 2023
The "Conspiracy Test" is a collaboration between The School of Thought and The University of Queensland Critical Thinking Project with philanthropic support from Gabriel Weinberg and Pskydin from Metal Warrior, and advice from Professor Sander van der Linden at the Social Decision-Making Lab in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge, and Brendan Nyhan, the James O. Freedman Presidential Professor, Department of Government, Dartmouth College.
By the way, in case you're wondering what the hell a "Pskydin" is, this is its profile picture:
As you can see, things are already shaping up in a really "special" way...
The Conspiracy Test is published under Creative Commons by schoolofthought.org – a 501c3 non profit organization dedicated to popularizing critical thinking through best-practice creative strategy and design principles. Which naturally means it's going to be pozzed to hell.
So how does the Conspiracy Test work? Well, everyone loves video games nowadays because attention spans have been nuked into oblivion. Naturally, what these academics had to do was make a "gamified" interactive platform to help increase "healthy skepticism" for conspiracy theory nutjobs like you and me. App users can select from a number of theories they think might be true before setting a baseline of skepticism and challenging themselves through a series of self-directed steps to increase their Critical Thinking Score.
Attacking people's intelligence as a means of pressuring them into accepting a premise? Well, I feel smarter already!
Do you believe the earth is flat? Do you believe the US 2020 election was stolen? Did you refuse the retard juice? Is it just a coincidence that so many areas of society are controlled and influenced by people with really small hats? Well, take the Conspiracy Test and subject yourself to the shameless strawmanning of your academic superiors!
Features include:
Initial results indicate a significant effect with participants increasing their average skepticism for conspiracy theories by 29%! Wow!! Apparently, through a focused barrage of browbeating your stupid beliefs, they've made you a way more healthy thinker.
But why would they do all this?
Why not just let people foster their own thoughts and feelings about whatever they feel is appropriate?
What is the deal with all this thought control?
Well, of course, all this work is being done to save the world from pesky conspiratards like you and me. All that pesky free thinking can lead to "dangerously extremist beliefs and actions." Actions like drinking from plastic straws, refusing to inject retard juice in your veins, refusing to use someone's preferred pronouns, or *GASP* looking at the Kiwi Farms!
The site tells you that Conspiracy thinking may lead to an increase in political polarization and give cover to actual conspiracies...
Wait, stop questioning the powers that be, but focus attention on "genuine" abuses of power...?
WTF?!
...
Ultimately Conspiracy Project aims to learn and implement what works best to stop people from thinking for themselves or consider any viewpoints outside the mainstream and have not been approved by various liberal academic institutions.
Are you ready? Go ahead and take the Conpiracy Test today!
But, be warned: site uses Javascript and they're going to ask for your information by the very end (for "science" purposes, no doubt).
https://theconspiracytest.org/
By the way, in case you're wondering what the hell a "Pskydin" is, this is its profile picture:
As you can see, things are already shaping up in a really "special" way...
The Conspiracy Test is published under Creative Commons by schoolofthought.org – a 501c3 non profit organization dedicated to popularizing critical thinking through best-practice creative strategy and design principles. Which naturally means it's going to be pozzed to hell.
So how does the Conspiracy Test work? Well, everyone loves video games nowadays because attention spans have been nuked into oblivion. Naturally, what these academics had to do was make a "gamified" interactive platform to help increase "healthy skepticism" for conspiracy theory nutjobs like you and me. App users can select from a number of theories they think might be true before setting a baseline of skepticism and challenging themselves through a series of self-directed steps to increase their Critical Thinking Score.
Attacking people's intelligence as a means of pressuring them into accepting a premise? Well, I feel smarter already!
Do you believe the earth is flat? Do you believe the US 2020 election was stolen? Did you refuse the retard juice? Is it just a coincidence that so many areas of society are controlled and influenced by people with really small hats? Well, take the Conspiracy Test and subject yourself to the shameless strawmanning of your academic superiors!
Features include:
- Fostering probabilistic thinking by using a percentage scale (skepticism by democracy)
- A gamified Critical Thinking Score which rewards increased skepticism (the less you question mainstream talking points, the greater your reward)
- Through various tactics that underhandedly attack your beliefs, the project gives people the illusion of intelligence as they conduct a guided 'critical thinking investigation' (the app straight up tells you what you should believe and insults your intelligence if you believe otherwise)
- Focus on user experience and user interface design (lies; all results are slated in favor of greater skepticism)
- An iterative approach which split-tests different ways to increase skepticism and belief mobility so as to improve the platform, and outcomes, over time (lies; the entire app is biased and contains no confounding variables).
- A formal research study which will seek to empirically validate the findings such that they can be used by other platforms and media channels to increase informational integrity, as well as decrease the effectiveness of disinformation campaigns (they want your information because they want thought control)
Initial results indicate a significant effect with participants increasing their average skepticism for conspiracy theories by 29%! Wow!! Apparently, through a focused barrage of browbeating your stupid beliefs, they've made you a way more healthy thinker.
But why would they do all this?
Why not just let people foster their own thoughts and feelings about whatever they feel is appropriate?
What is the deal with all this thought control?
Well, of course, all this work is being done to save the world from pesky conspiratards like you and me. All that pesky free thinking can lead to "dangerously extremist beliefs and actions." Actions like drinking from plastic straws, refusing to inject retard juice in your veins, refusing to use someone's preferred pronouns, or *GASP* looking at the Kiwi Farms!
The site tells you that Conspiracy thinking may lead to an increase in political polarization and give cover to actual conspiracies...
Wait, stop questioning the powers that be, but focus attention on "genuine" abuses of power...?
WTF?!
...
Ultimately Conspiracy Project aims to learn and implement what works best to stop people from thinking for themselves or consider any viewpoints outside the mainstream and have not been approved by various liberal academic institutions.
Are you ready? Go ahead and take the Conpiracy Test today!
But, be warned: site uses Javascript and they're going to ask for your information by the very end (for "science" purposes, no doubt).
https://theconspiracytest.org/
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ends when it is directed at themselves.
