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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/03/2026

I just (mostly) suppress that impulse and try to focus on substance rather than style, at least when I'm trying to understand others and be understood by them. But yes, I do silently judge the people around me for their word choices - *all the time*. 26/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/03/2026

That's why I pounced on "The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes," a paper from *Personality and Individual Differences* by Shane Littrell, a linguistics postdoc at Cornell: www.researchgate.net/publication/... 27/

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(PDF) The Corporate Bullshit Receptivity Scale: Development, validation, and associations with workplace outcomes

PDF | From boardrooms and brown bags to emails and earnings calls, business culture often seems overrun by “corporate bullshit,” a semantically empty... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/03/2026

Littrell set out to evaluate "corporate bullshit," a linguistic category that is separate from mere "jargon." 28/

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Shane Littrell, PhD @metacognishane.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Um...while I absolutely appreciate the shout-out, and it's truly humbling when anyone finds value in my work, I think there are some misunderstandings here about what the paper actually reports.

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