The words that reveal how smart you aren’t

Does using more filler words mean you're dumb? Or actually...smarter? Today we're diving into some of the most controversial words.
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Written by: Mitchell Moffit
Animated By: Mitchell Moffit and Luka Šarlija
Edited by: Luka Šarlija

Sources & Further Reading:

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-68606-x

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0261927X14526993

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275005568_Um_Who_Like_Says_You_Know

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0163853X.2021.1924000

https://www.utoronto.ca/news/sali-atagliamonte-language-detective#:~:text=Commonly%20held%20assumptions%20about%20how,elderly%20speakers%20in%20the%20UK).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38819033/

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.25.24303329v3