Why Stupid people are more sure than smart ones

the Dunning-Kruger effect explains why

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Education

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• bertrand
• russell
• dunning
• kruger
• effect
• wikipedia
• smart
• stupid
• inferior
• superior
• ilusory
• complex

[BonelessSausage]

My quote of myself is based on a life of inferiority, but realizing I was not so damn bad in the first place. A lady and now my wife made me realize my huge ego. I some decade ago left a bar with her and carried a beer out. The tenders foll owed me and said give me the beer. "You don't know who I am I shouted" Her pure laughter crushed my false exterior...

[clevonamerica]

@BonelessSausage

oh god i think i did something just like that..my wife is the pin for my balloons..

bret

[notthecheatr]

I'm kind of worried about this because I have a big ego. Does this mean I'm stupid? I'm so uncertain about myself!

[clevonamerica]

@notthecheatr

your doubt secures your intellect

bret

[clustro]

I encounter this with my students all the time

Instead of working and studying harder to correct their deficiencies, they whine that I take off too many points. Lulzy. Pointless, but lulzy.

[clevonamerica]

@clustro

hire them as teenagers while they still know everything

bret

[ummubasma]

Let me tell you something! (just kidding:P) I have inferiority complex. Does this mean I'm highly competent? Probably not cause I'm SURE I'm not:P That's just the way it is, the more we know the more you realise we know so little. Look at a fly. We look at it in contempt but can we fly and walk on the ceiling? Don't think so. Just be humble and remember, ppl get old and don't even recognise their own family. That could happen to you regardless from being smart or stupid. Just saying.

[TheBlackDhaliaAce]

One day a friend & i gathered after work to discuss religion. I am agnostic & he is a theist. He began to map out his interpretation of my beliefs & pointed out the flaws in my reasoning. I wondered why he was doing this? He acted so sure that he was right & i was wrong. End result: he left with an over-inflated ego & i was left doubting whether i articulated my thoughts clearly enough for him to understand that i was not giving him facts but, only my PERSONAL beliefs. What a classic! lol

[QCBEC]

@ummubasma No...stupidity give self esteem to a lot of people, take for instance people with real mental problem these people they dont think about life they just live it, same goes for stupid people if you can see it this way....and i think you and the 7 person that thumbed you up are concern but doesnt understand it, but then again how would you know if it would concern you?

And my apologize if its not the case, after all judging from nothing is a sign of stupidity.

[QCBEC]

@clustro I am 17 years old, i wouldnt say, i am smarter then someone, but i understand this video and it concern me in a lot of way...you have it or you dont i concider i have it and i am apart of other at school...i laugh to thing they do and say just to assimilate myself with them but its like if they dont think of nothing that matter..like most of them dont even what is an existential question.

Now so that you do not think i am poorly educated, i am not english but french.

[QCBEC]

@clevonamerica Excuse the insult.

Btw, ive written before watching the video.

[NadiaVision]

Yes. Intelligent people are constantly asking questions and seeking answers rather than assuming they already have them.

[matcotech]

They're called libertarians (The Dunning Kruger afflicted).

[clockguy2]

@Wintermutat "Can something complex arise from simpler processes, without being designed?" Yes, almost every material thing can except living things (because a cell is an incredibly complex thing and doesn't exist in a "simple" form). Am I being Cocky or illogical because I see God's design in nature? Tsk-Tsk ......but then perhaps there is design in each individual snowflake too???

[clockguy2]

Although the Dunning–Kruger effect addresses erroneous perceptions of skill in general, not intelligence (and the lack thereof) in particular, casual commentary on it tends to dwell on that particular axis.

source: DeAngelis, Tori (feb 2003). "Why we overestimate our competence". Monitor on Psychology. American Psychological Association. p. 60.

[Wintermutate]

@clockguy2 Can something complex arise from simpler processes, without being designed?  Yes or no?

While you think about it, take a course in logic. You're exemplifying the Dunning-Kruger effect with your ignorance of simple logic and your cocksure certainty of being logical.