Posted on 01/10/2019 2:10:24 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
You may have witnessed this scene at work, while socializing with friends or over a holiday dinner with extended family: Someone who has very little knowledge in a subject claims to know a lot. That person might even boast about being an expert.
This phenomenon has a name: the Dunning-Kruger effect. It’s not a disease, syndrome or mental illness; it is present in everybody to some extent, and it’s been around as long as human cognition, though only recently has it been studied and documented in social psychology.
In their 1999 paper, published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, David Dunning and Justin Kruger put data to what has been known by philosophers since Socrates, who supposedly said something along the lines of “the only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing.” Charles Darwin followed that up in 1871 with “ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
Put simply, incompetent people think they know more than they really do, and they tend to be more boastful about it.
To test Darwin’s theory, the researchers quizzed people on several topics, such as grammar, logical reasoning and humor. After each test, they asked the participants how they thought they did. Specifically, participants were asked how many of the other quiz-takers they beat.
Dunning was shocked by the results, even though it confirmed his hypothesis. Time after time, no matter the subject, the people who did poorly on the tests ranked their competence much higher. On average, test takers who scored as low as the 10th percentile ranked themselves near the 70th percentile. Those least likely to know what they were talking about believed they knew as much as the experts.
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This explains libtardsand the liberal media pretty well.
Idiots go into journalism by and large, its where education majors go because they think they can write and want to “make a difference.” IE take down conservative people they disagree with.
Hence the saying:
The shallower the stream, the louder the babble.
I’ve invented a new standard by which you can judge a subjects position on the spectrum of psycho.
It’s all based on how much white you can see around the retina. More than 75% and you’re looking at a psycho.
In the picture youposted, you can see 100% of the way around her retina.
By all means, let’s elect her president and give her the keys to the nukes.
Often in error - never in doubt...
In thirty-plus years I had several bosses who thought that because someone competent worked for them, that they could do whatever job the employee did. They knew it had to be so easy that even though they knew nothing about it, they could do it. I think several factors are at work. The employees were younger than they were. They had hired those employees and therefore had the upper hierarchical position. And, like doctors who are unquestioned in their field, they felt that their expertise extended to all things; simply because they were never questioned and therefore never learned the true depth of their knowledge, or lack thereof.
Where this became particularly annoying was when they wanted an answer NOW! They didn’t know that a 24 hour test takes hours to set up and then hours more to analyze the data, for example.
Hardly a new phenomena.
Proverbs 12:15 The way of fools seems right to them, but the wise listen to advice.
Proverbs 14:16 The wise fear the Lord and shun evil, but a fool is hotheaded and yet feels secure.
Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise adorns knowledge, but the mouth of the fool gushes folly.
All the people who worked for him still revere him to this day.
Such as a meterologist believing herself qualified to write on the subject of psychology.
From the article:
Dunning-Kruger “offers an explanation for a kind of hubris,” said Steven Sloman, a cognitive psychologist at Brown University. “The fact is, that’s Trump in a nutshell. He’s a man with zero political skill who has no idea he has zero political skill. And it’s given him extreme confidence”
This has to be one of the dumbest statements I have read in a long time. Here you have a man who won the most competitive political election in the world, but has zero political skill. Like saying MVP Tom Brady has zero football skill.
This egghead Ivy League professor cannot see the irony that by uttering such nonsense he is the pure epitome of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
She is a “mental case” for sure.
“Someone who has very little knowledge in a subject claims to know a lot.”
Are we talking about journalists?
CNN and MSNBC anchors?
Democrat Senators?
Is that a required course for
teachers and journalists?
My dad always taught us “you can’t argue with performance,” but these jackasses sure try.
Does she mean like editors and writers for the Washington Post?
I'd say the psychologist thinks he is better at diagnosing people than he actually is.
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