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Why Stupid People Think They're Smart
Gene363 Offline
#1 Posted:
Joined: 01-24-2003
Posts: 30,836
This explains a lot.

Why Stupid People Think They're Smart [The Dunning-Kruger Effect]

ow knowledge works and why stupid people think they're smarter than the smart people who think they're stupid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT81fe2IobI

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The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills.
MACS Offline
#2 Posted:
Joined: 02-26-2004
Posts: 79,817
I'm wicked smaaht. Frankie told me.
Gene363 Offline
#3 Posted:
Joined: 01-24-2003
Posts: 30,836
MACS wrote:
I'm wicked smaaht. Frankie told me.


Yes and confirmed too.
DrafterX Offline
#4 Posted:
Joined: 10-18-2005
Posts: 98,559
Stupid is as stupid does... Mellow
frankj1 Offline
#5 Posted:
Joined: 02-08-2007
Posts: 44,223
MACS wrote:
I'm wicked smaaht. Frankie told me.

true, true.
8trackdisco Offline
#6 Posted:
Joined: 11-06-2004
Posts: 60,087
Don't think I'm that smart, if I did, I'd be a real dumbass. Which I might be. Oh-0h, that almost sounds....
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