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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by mistrial9 on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:19AM (#37261390)
.. the person responding merged the thoughts ("the company spokesperson said A" + "screenshots show company doing B" ) + (the reason the company did that is $SYSTEM + the reason the spokesporson said that is $SYSTEM)

this is actually a known problem in cognitive psych; the person writing did not sufficiently break up the parts. An incomplete thought chain or lazy thinking results in this kind of merged result all the time.

Buddhist psychology for one, has a lot to say about the nature of this kind of lack of clarity in general.

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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by asu_thomas on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:30AM (#37261508)
Nobody ascribed a cause to anything. My only point is that it's reality, not imagination.

People just making shit up is also a known problem in cognitive psychology. Very interesting stuff.

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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by IggleSniggle on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:43AM (#37261646)
67% of cognitive psychology is made up on the spot! The rest is made up in other places.
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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by mistrial9 on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:44AM (#37261651)
>> It's literally just plain capitalism in regular reality.

> Nobody ascribed a cause to anything.

.... those two statements contradict directly... followed by scatology..

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Re:The College Board Tells TikTok and Facebook Your SAT Scores by Sirizarry on Friday August 25, 2023 @09:45AM (#37261668)
I think you’re really misunderstanding the context in which the word dystopian is used here. It’s just a negative adjective. No one is saying this is imagination.
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