In your time on the internet you’ve probably come across all sorts of new age quotes that seem like pure nonsense – just a string of buzzwords about “the universe” and “energy” – but just how easy is it to distinguish this drivel from content that has actually been randomly generated from a list of buzzwords?

Inspired by University of Waterloo Ph.D. candidate Gordon Pennycook’s study “On the reception and detection of pseudo-profound bullshit”  We’ve taken a bunch of quotes from new age guru Deepak Chopra and mixed them up with randomly generated nonsense from the website Wisdom of Chopra, take the quiz below to see if you can tell which is which!

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