Precision Credibility Effect

When you include specific, unnecessary details to enhance the credibility of a story.

A: My fabricated story was so believable because I made up untrue specific details about it.
B: That's the precision credibility effect.

by Balaenoptera_musculus November 26, 2023

Precision Credibility Effect

When you include specific, unnecessary details to enhance the credibility of a story.

Their fabricated story was so effective because of the precision credibility effect.

by Balaenoptera_musculus November 28, 2023

Credible

Credible and true are two different things, though it is often implied that credible and true are the same.

A movie is credible, there are are credits given to actors, directors, producers, sound and lighting crews, music, and anyone else involved in making the movie, and yet the movie is still 2 hours or so of unbelievable bullshit trying to pass itself off as believeable, (or feasible, as some would call it) which is really what people are doing when they call something credible. Saying something is credible encourages people not to keep questioning it, stopping just short of telling them they can't question it.

by The Original Agahnim August 30, 2021

Credible source

Not urban dictionary

Urban dictionary is not a credible source.

by UltimateDoge May 21, 2021

Credibility Score

The score of how Penaldo rates how good something is. If Penaldo likes it, it gains credibility. If he doesn't, then it loses credibility.

Interviewer: Pessi robbed a World Cup, what's your credibility score?
Penaldo: World Cup lost credibility

by South Host November 30, 2025

Credible threats

Are time bound and non-contigent. When I say "I'm allowed to do this" I mean "I'm literally allowed to do this." And if you're going to try to steal my shit (Punish the counterfactual) Why would I not do the things I talk about doing?

Hym "Literally, weaponizing schizophrenia against me. You're not 'keeping kids safe' by doing it. I've been within arms reach or behind the wheel for dozens of them. You're not a cop. You're not an authority. You're a delusional fucking retard and I'M the LITERAL (fucking) CREATOR OF A.I. And if you ARE a cop or an authority... You are not going to have an easy time explaining what happens if I don't get my fucking money for MY FUCKING SHIT, you clown. It's too late to just stop doing it. I'm the only needs to be appeased here. Not the retards. I don't give a fuck what your kids see. There is NOR WILL THERE BE any lesson to learn here other than don't weaponize schizophrenia and don't try to teach people lessons or you'll get your fucking kids murdered because YOU'RE JUST SOME FUCKING GUY. Credible threats."

by Hym Iam June 22, 2024

Credibility

You're presupposing that the non-dei people are working harder.

Hym "Your credibility is literally the only you care about. You literally have hours of lectures devoted to how important it is to you. This wasn't about you initially and when it became about you, you cried like a little bitch and tried to kill yourself. And then you came back, realized I wasn't dead, and the cried some more. This isn't some moral calculus your doing here. This isn't your virtue being punished. This isn't you defending the zeitgeist. This is you taking revenge on a dissident in the form of his own self-described Truman-Show esque hell. Except IT WAS ALREADY HAPPENING. So you're helping them cover it up. That's all this is. And you railing against the institutions is your own hypocrisy manifest."

by Hym Iam August 2, 2024