[Torcert]

This article seems strangely appropriate given the rise of Trump.

[El Cid]

I saw the title and thought it had something to do with voting for Obama. Twice.

[Red Badger]

He must have read it on the Interwebs, so it must be true!................

[KyCats]

One glaring oversight. The article fails to mention how stupid it is for leftist trolls to try to pose as legitimate members of Free Republic.

[Theophilus]

Landmesser

[Talisker]

The confidence-skill disconnect has been dubbed the Dunning-Kruger effect, after a study by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger. Dunning and Kruger had Cornell undergraduates perform tests of humor, logic, and grammar, and then rate how well they think they performed compared to other subjects in the study. The worst performing subjects, whose scores put them in the 12th percentile, estimated that they had performed in the 62nd percentile. Summarizing the findings, Dunning noted, "Poor performers - and we are all poor performers at some things - fail to see the flaws in their thinking or the answers they lack." When we think we are at our best is sometimes when we are at our objective worst

Dunning-Kruger didn't even discover what they claimed to discover. They're just another self-hatred, "check your enthusiasm" psyop against self-confidence and positive thinking. Psychological poison of the type that is literally shoveled at white college students nonstop to create and maintain modern liberalism. Teaching young people that giving up is facing reality.

And that is why they support Bernie.

And the teachers of the poison support Hillary.

[VanShuyten]

Good subject for Scientific American, which went from a respected scientific journal to a left-wing tabloid, losing many of its subscribers in the process.

[MNJohnnie]

You seem to have this habit of posting emotional based verbal attacks, usually based on the logical fallacy of stating your opinion as if ti were fact, and them pretending that everyone else is unreasonable for not seeing things the way you do in your emotion based bubble world.

Why are you incapable of seeing the disconnect between your passive/aggressive posting behavior and your narcissistic self image?

You are what you claim to be fighting against. Really sad.

[pgkdan]

This article seems strangely appropriate given the rise of Trump.

Yeah. Sort of like posting that reply. Pull your head out of your ass son. You look stupid walking around like that.

[Dr. Sivana]

Or, in what is widely regarded as one of the top mascot failures in history, when Wild Wing of the Anaheim Ducks caught himself on fire attempting to leap over a burning wall (cheerleaders pulled him from the flames and he returned to action later in the game, unhurt). “This story of Duck a l'Orange County is no canard. A duck could get fired for this, or at least demoted to the Rotisserie League,” the New York Times reported.

The New York Times actually has a clever reporter, and he's stuck writing sports/strange buttrue stories.

[mjp]

The 3 causes of stupid mistakes are:
1) overestimation of one's abilities
2) making impulsive decisions
3) lapses of attention,
but the cause of all three are the refusal or inability to activate one's higher level conceptual consciousness and to become reality oriented, or the evasion of reality back to a constant state of haze, drift, and fog. In this state one is motivated by emotions, fantasies,immediate interests, urges, and subconscious drives rather than reason.

[knarf]

ping

[Mears]

Stupid mistake by Mears.

I was having lunch with a friend who said she ran out of the little stickers with her return address on them that she put on her mail.She asked me if I knew where to order them.

I told her that I had loads of extras at home and that I would give her some.

She looked at me as if I had 2 heads.

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[Moltke]

believing that lemon juice he had rubbed on his face would make him invisible to security cameras

Well, who here hasn't, on occasion, confused the invisible ink trick with the invisible man trick?

[pierrem15]

Scientific American supports the mythology of global warming.

Guess they know less about breathtakingly stupid mistakes than they think.

[Albion Wilde]

bump