"Many commentators have argued that Donald Trump’s dominance in the GOP presidential race can be largely explained by ignorance."
"It suggests that some voters, especially those facing significant distress in their life, might like some of what they hear from Trump, but they do not know enough to hold him accountable for the serious gaffes he makes. They fail to recognize those gaffes as missteps."
And does that principle also apply to your application and understanding of that principle, David? Or are you exempt?
Of course, only geniuses vote for Democrats right lefties..just like the goons yesterday protesting Trump, obviously all college grads
This one is a navel pondering moron.
But as a psychologist who has studied human behavior—including voter behavior—for decades, I think people who don’t vote the way I vote are just poopy-heads.
The author clearly has no understanding of the hatred Americans have for Marxists,crony capitalism and perverts.
The desperation is really showing.
It isn’t that I’m stupid, but I am a bit of an agitator myself this election season. Gone are my hopes for a candidate to win on merit alone. Need an agitator. Got him.
Congratulations Dunning - even though you’re dead wrong about Trump and his supporters - you’ve just identified the Ødungo effect.
TDS
Yep. That’s why college professors have almost exactly the same voting patterns as urban ferals.
His answer? Vote for Hillary!! (Bernie would cut his salary and take 80% of what was left, LOL)
Dunning is an unfortunate example of why psychologists are held in such low esteem within academia. Somewhere in all this overconfident malarkey there is science trying to get out, but it isn’t making it.
The first paragraph fits the Democrats and libs perfectly.
This guy needs as shrink.
Dunning-Kruger exists and many voters do have a cognitive bias. We saw it in 2008 with Obama voters. It may or may not be the reason Trump's most ardent supports love him. I'm not qualified to say one way or the other. I do know that anger is a significant factor in their motivations, which I can understand.
Obozo was elected due to the Dunning-Kruger effect
Every Demagogue gets elected due to Dunning-Kruger
The Democrats would not have a part without the operations of Dunning-Kruger
... and as this article makes obvious, Dunning himself is one of the most blatant examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect’s operation in liberals....
That fact that Dunning’s explanation of the Trump phenomenon is:
“They’re ALL stupid and simply don’t know it.”
Is proof that he’s suffering from his own effect.
He doesn’t get it, and he doesn’t know he doesn’t get it.
Oh the irony!
I wonder if committing felony national security crimes is a "serious gaffe" in David Dunning's special little world?
Or if one's husband jetting to PedoBear Island [Lolitaville] 20-odd times, sometimes WITHOUT the Secret Service detail, is a "serious gaffe"?
Whotta fracking blowhard this Dunning guy is!
But we all know why we despise Hillary Clinton. It’s that patriotism thing.
“The problem isn’t that voters are too uninformed. It is that they don’t know just how uninformed they are.”
If anything, this applies more to people voting straight Dem ticket, including for Hillary, without thinking.
New group needed, Ph.D’s for Trump
:)