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Mr. Obama and the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Pundit Press ^ | 8/9/11 | Aurelius

Posted on 08/09/2011 7:19:43 AM PDT by therightliveswithus

You may not know what the Dunning-Kruger Effect is. Honestly, I only found out about it recently. But since learning of it, the severe incompetency of one Barack Obama has become much more clear to me.

For those of you who have never heard of it, it's not terribly complicated. One major aspect of the Dunning-Kruger Effect is when an unskilled worker makes a large amount of mistakes and comes to an erroneous conclusion. However, because they are unskilled and unknowledgeable, they believe that they did in fact come to the right conclusion.

This leads to an exaggerated sense of competence and know-how. It also leads the person to believe that they know much more than most others, if not everyone else. According to the study, the person in question is normally extremely incompetent, and therefore is unable and unwilling to recognize any mistakes.

This same effect can happen when those around a person constantly tell them that they are doing the right thing when they are, in fact, doing the wrong things. The person doesn't know what they're doing is wrong and those around him or her simply build up their ego. It gets to the point where the person at the center of the Dunning-Kruger Effect do not want to realize what is right and what is wrong simply because they've been locked in a different kind of reality.

You see things like this every day. But what if the Dunning-Kruger Effect wasn't simply for average folks? What if the effect happened to distort the reality of a high-ranking official? Or perhaps the President of the United States.

Certainly you could not have read the previous few paragraphs (outside of the first) and not have thought of President Barack Obama. From the beginnings of his 2008 campaign, to his nomination, and to his ultimate victory in the general election, there has been no one praised as richly as Mr. Obama. To his supporters, he would "bring back the United States," he was "the one," he was "cool," and "sexy," and "amazing."

And the rabid support was not just that of sycophants in his inner circle. The Main Stream Media, even today, lavishes him with support. How many times have you read or seen that Mr. Obama is the "smartest President ever?" Hundreds of times. Undoubtedly you remember how the MSM gushed over Mr. Obama when he went to the beach. And guess what: he ate it up.

More, when has the President ever been blamed for making a mistake? Unemployment two and a half years into his Presidency? President Bush's fault! The United States' credit being downgraded? It's the Tea Party's fault! These simple things, things that the President has years to fix, are deflected away from the President, helping to lock in the Dunning-Kruger Effect.

It's the same reason why, when the President goes golfing while the DOW tumbles and American soldiers die in the Middle East, Mr. Obama does even think twice. His reality is locked in; everything he does is right, everyone else is incompetent.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: dunningkruger; obama

1 posted on 08/09/2011 7:19:46 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
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To: therightliveswithus

The MSM went all in to get Zero elected. As such, they will defend him to the very end, even if it results in their destruction (which wouldn’t be such a bad thing when you stop to think about it).


2 posted on 08/09/2011 7:22:37 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (I'll have what the gentleman on the floor is drinking.)
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To: therightliveswithus

Interesting


3 posted on 08/09/2011 7:23:58 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Barrak has now won the contest. He is even worse than Jimmah.)
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To: jurroppi1

bttt


4 posted on 08/09/2011 7:26:00 AM PDT by jurroppi1
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To: therightliveswithus

I think it’s actually the Cloward -Piven effect: pretend to be an even-handed moderate while intentionally inflicting as much damage as possible for as long as possible on American institutions. By the time one is found out and removed from office, much of the damage should be irreversible, anyway.


5 posted on 08/09/2011 7:31:33 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ( "The right to offend is far more important than any right not to be offended." - Rowan Atkinson)
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To: therightliveswithus

Good info, but I wish the author had used proper English and not used plural pronouns to refer to a singular antecedent. Made the article much harder to read.


6 posted on 08/09/2011 7:35:03 AM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: Arm_Bears

(re: the LMSM) “..even if it results in their destruction..”

Another example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect.


7 posted on 08/09/2011 7:48:46 AM PDT by Designer (We are SO scrood!)
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To: therightliveswithus

Liberalism itself is one big Dunning-Kruger phenomenon.


8 posted on 08/09/2011 7:54:15 AM PDT by wayoverontheright
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To: therightliveswithus

Dunning-Kruger effect - ahhhh....this explains our admirals and generals.


9 posted on 08/09/2011 8:06:10 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: therightliveswithus

Seems the world’s FULL of individuals like this,these days...

An inordinate amount of “self-esteem”, and more to come.

But, Little Stevie Dunham takes the cake.


10 posted on 08/09/2011 8:08:00 AM PDT by Mortrey (Impeach President Soros)
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To: therightliveswithus

This leads to an exaggerated sense of competence and know-how. It also leads the person to believe that they know much more than most others, if not everyone else. According to the study, the person in question is normally extremely incompetent, and therefore is unable and unwilling to recognize any mistakes.”

I could name entire COUNTRIES where this applies. But, being polite, I won’t.


11 posted on 08/09/2011 8:08:18 AM PDT by ConservativeDude
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To: therightliveswithus

Maybe so but HE IS an arrogant, malevolent Marxist SOB.


12 posted on 08/09/2011 8:42:22 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Half the people are below average.)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
I think it’s actually the Cloward -Piven effect: pretend to be an even-handed moderate while intentionally inflicting as much damage as possible for as long as possible on American institutions. By the time one is found out and removed from office, much of the damage should be irreversible, anyway.

Agreed. Obama is the far left's stealth bomb. He has been placed in position to implode the system as hard and as fast as possible. I don't think it really matters to them that he only makes it thru one term. The damage and gaping hole has been done. We have been breached.

13 posted on 08/09/2011 8:55:27 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Free Republic- Still AAA++ rated)
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To: therightliveswithus
Barky is just the teleprompter reader. This criticism should be directed at his controllers behind the scenes. Barky's job is to smile happily and voice his lines. They no longer ask him to try to memorize them. He does his job quite well and in his spare time he's gotten almost better than Tiger on the links. In his mind if there's a problem, it's not him.

Once Barky's term is up in 2012 in desperation he will head to Hollywood to get is narcissistic drug fix. It's going to be ugly, like watching Mantoinette dumpster dive for a twinkie.

14 posted on 08/09/2011 8:55:40 AM PDT by Reeses (It's a safety net, not a hammock!)
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