Condition
Participants' number of responses endorsing the presence of an object in the Modified Snowy Picture Task items which contained an object. Higher values represent greater real pattern perception.
Participants' number of responses endorsing the presence of an object in the Modified Snowy Picture Task items which did not contain an object. Higher values represent greater illusory pattern perception.
The summation of the differences (transformed to absolute values) between an item's true association and participants' responses for no assocation items (i.e., CoVarResp_A and CoVarResp_C).
The summation of the differences (transformed to absolute values) between an item's true association and participants' responses for assocation present items (i.e., CoVarResp_B and CoVarResp_D).
Variable identifying outliers (error score data that diverged from the mean by more than three standard deviations) on our Covariation task
1 - Hidden meaning transforms unparalleled abstract beauty.
2 - Good health imparts reality to subtle creativity.
3 - Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena.
4 - The future explains irrational facts.
5 - Imagination is inside exponential space time events.
6 - We are in the midst of a self-aware blossoming of being that will align us with the nexus itself.
7 - Consciousness consists of frequencies of quantum energy. "Quantum" means an unveiling of the unrestricted.
8 - Consciousness is the growth of coherence, and of us.
9 - We are in the midst of a high-frequency blossoming of interconnectedness that will give us access to the quantum soup itself.
10 - Today, science tells us that the essence of nature is joy.
11 - Your teacher can open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
12 - The creative adult is the child who survived.
13 - A river cuts through a rock, not because of its power but its persistence.
14 - All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
15 - Art and love are the same thing: It's the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.
16 - At the centre of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
17 - A wet person does not fear the rain.
18 - Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.
19 - Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
20 - I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.
Bullshit Receptivity Scale - Higher scores indicate greater endorsement of pseudo-profound bullshit statements as profound
Motivational Quotation Scale - Higher scores indicate greater endorsement of motivational quotations as profound
Ellen and Kim are running around a track. They run equally fast but Ellen started later. When Ellen has run 5 laps, Kim has run 15 laps. When Ellen has run 30 laps, how many has Kim run?
In his class, Jerry was both the 15th tallest and 15th shortest student. How many students are in the class?
In an athletics team, tall members are three times more likely to win a medal than short members. This year the team has won 60 medals so far. How many of those have been won by short athletes?
A man buys a pig for $60, sells it for $70, buys it back for $80, and finally sells it for $90. How much has he made?