Dr. Fox effect Phenomenon which describes that with a help of | Self Education

Dr. Fox effect

Phenomenon which describes that with a help of a well-made, organized and beautifully written text people can persuade themselfs that they are learning something from it. It's like faking the feeling of studying.

Process

Several first course students were invited to listen to the Doctor Fox lecture. He was a hired actor. It was said that he has published 2 books and has several trophies. When he was perfoming, he used a lot of abstruse terms to obscure the meaning of the lecture. It was just a big mix of unrelated things, but the way it was said made students agree and enjoy the lecture.

Result

Even though students didn't understand anything and didn't learn anything from this lecture, most of them gave positive feedback about it. In addition, they invited last course students who were specializing on game theory and they did lecture about it. Nevertheless, students still liked it and gave positive feedback. However, they understood that it was fake one, but they really liked the way it was proposed.

Conclusion

As we can see, it doesn't really matter what people hear, the only things that matters is the way it proposed. In this experiment, "professor" said absolutely random and unconnected terms and no one even had noticed that.

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