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(3,910 posts) Wed Nov 25, 2015, 03:22 PM Nov 2015

The Ring of Fire: When Stupid People Don't Know They're Stupid

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The Ring of Fire: When Stupid People Don't Know They're Stupid (Original Post) GoLeft TV Nov 2015 OP

Do stupid people ever know they're stupid? pipoman Nov 2015 #1

I'm sure all of the DUer's reading this know several people that are poster-children regarding ... BlueJazz Nov 2015 #2

But you'd be stupid to think stupid people are not extremely dangerous zebonaut Nov 2015 #3

Precisely! Dunning-Kruger! longship Nov 2015 #4

He mistakenly calls the Dunning-Kruger effect a pathology. tclambert Nov 2015 #5

pipoman

(16,038 posts)

1. Do stupid people ever know they're stupid?

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Wed Nov 25, 2015, 03:24 PM

Nov 2015

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

2. I'm sure all of the DUer's reading this know several people that are poster-children regarding ...

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Wed Nov 25, 2015, 03:40 PM

Nov 2015

...this video.
I've just about quit trying to give a few of my acquaintances the real facts. They-just-can't-process-the information. We know that we don't know everything. (damn it!)

How discouraging.

zebonaut

(3,688 posts)

3. But you'd be stupid to think stupid people are not extremely dangerous

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Wed Nov 25, 2015, 04:24 PM

Nov 2015

longship

(40,416 posts)

4. Precisely! Dunning-Kruger!

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Wed Nov 25, 2015, 04:46 PM

Nov 2015

Look it up. Ignorant people do not have the capacity to know their ignorance.

Also, check out Altemeyer's authoritarian personality, which was covered admirably by John Dean in "Conservatives Without Conscience".

Those two are a deadly combination.

tclambert

(11,087 posts)

5. He mistakenly calls the Dunning-Kruger effect a pathology.

Reply to GoLeft TV (Original post)

Wed Nov 25, 2015, 10:13 PM

Nov 2015

Sadly, it is basic human nature.

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