tRump's condition: Dunning-Kruger effect?

[trof]

Sounds right to me.

"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein persons of low-ability suffer from illusory superiority, by mistakenly assessing their ability as greater than their actual capability. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability people to recognize their ineptitude. Without that, they cannot accurately evaluate their actual competence."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

[kimbutgar]

1. Arrogance is a characteristic of stupid.

[lunasun]

2. Definitely suffering from assholism . That is for sure!

[Ilsa]

3. That and lack of focus. nt

[NCjack]

4. Yeah, he has that too. nt

[Warpy]

5. The problem the human race as a whole faces

is that men (especially men) with Dunning-Kruger are often glowing with self confidence and enthusiasm and that makes other people with lesser cases of it think they're leaders and leaders know where they're going, so it's a good thing to follow them.

There is nothing worse than a supremely confident ignoramus with a following. It never turns out well.

[Hortensis]

6. I met someone like that once. She completely lacked

Rump's charm and good social skills, though; being with her was incredibly tedious. Although low-ability, she wasn't "stupid" across the board; rather, like Rump, I suspect, it seems her problems did not allow her to function well. In any case, she was constantly explaining to the intellectual inferiors all around her things any sensible child would understand perfectly well. The only one I remember is the reasons for lines painted on the street and walk signals at crosswalks.

Another term, which I saw the other day in The New Yorker, was "pathological inattention." That also seems extremely easy to believe might apply. He came out of a tour of an aircraft carrier the other day obviously unable to retain, or perhaps absorb, even the most basic explanations for the switchover from obsolete steam propulsion for catapults to electromagnetic. He thought one was "steam" and the other "digital," took a dislike to "digital" and decided to order the Navy to scrap the multibillion-dollar project.

I said, “You don’t use steam anymore for catapult?” “No sir.” I said, “Ah, how is it working?” “Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air.”

It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said—and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said, “What system are you going to be—” “Sir, we’re staying with digital.” I said, “No you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.”

Oh, dear. No doubt everyone there has had to file official reports detailing exactly what they actually told him. Poor Navy.

[mac56]

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