For those who are congenitally stupid, I have much sympathy. For those who are stupid yet think they are the smartest person in the room, I have only disdain. And it is the latter that this post seeks to address. Although I have written on this topic before, stupidity’s
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Dead Wild Roses: The Importance of Having Expert Teachers and Advice
Learning a new skill. Learn from an experienced teacher or professional as they really help you avoid the Dunning-Kruger Effect, which is oversimplified, you don’t know how bad you are until you know how bad you are. Or perhaps end up like this, an individual who believes they have a
Continue readingMontreal Simon: Why Donald Trump Is So Confidently Incompetent
As you may know, I have struggled for years to try to determine what makes Donald Trump tick.And so far my diagnosis includes extreme narcissism with a touch of paranoia, possibly aggravated by early onset dementia.But it seems I may have overlooked a critical psychological factor, the Dunning Kruger effect.Which makes
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: When you don’t know that you don’t know – The Dunning Kruger Effect
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Continue readingEclectic Lip: The witless wisdom of Shai Agassi
Dunning-Kruger effect graphed by AddAttack on DeviantArt. LinkedIn has an “opinion leader” piece from Shai Agassi, founder of bankrupt car-battery-switcher Better Place, telling carmakers how they need to respond to Tesla’s success. Who better to give them advice than a guy who raised $850 million for an ignorant, impractical, impossible
Continue readingEclectic Lip: The biology of phishing
Some nefarious group recently made a phishing attempt against me, trying to lure me into providing bank account information in response to an Official Looking email. Presumably, the combination of spam filters and alert consumers means phishing has a very, very low success rate. Fortunately for criminals, email has virtually no incremental
Continue readingDeSmogBlog: How Do We Explain Scientifically Literate But Anti-Science Conservatives? Paging Drs. Dunning and Kruger
dunning_kruger_percieved_actual_graph.gif As regular readers of this blog know, I have spent a lot of time discussing what we call the “smart idiot” effect: Political conservatives who know more about science—or, have a higher level of education—tend to be more in denial of science or facts in contested areas, like global
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