We Are All Confident Idiots
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We Are All Confident Idiots
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#2I'm not confident!
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#3"As You Like It" by William Shakespeare
Act 5, Scene 1:
[...]The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool[...]
I try to keep that quote in mind at all times. I believe it holds a great deal of wisdom, especially for me. For I am loud and opinionated. But I still fail when I need it most, at times when I am surrounded by (people who IMHO are extreme) idiots.
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#4I'm pretty sure that for the Kimmel segments, they ask the interviewees different questions and later edit in a different question that makes the original answer seem funny.
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#5Anecdotal evidence from a fun show, plus the mandatory reference to Dunning-Kruger.
"Unfortunately, Kruger and Dunning never actually provided any support for this type of just-world view; their studies categorically didn’t show that incompetent people are more confident or arrogant than competent people."
http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-k...
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#6> some familiarity with concepts that are entirely made up, such as the plates of parallax, ultra-lipid, and cholarine. In one study, roughly 90 percent claimed some knowledge of at least one of the nine fictitious concepts
Is it possible that this is at least partly down to the phrase "some knowledge"? Knowing what parallax or lipids are might be seen as having some knowledge of the concept.
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#7"As You Like It" by William Shakespeare Act 5, Scene 1: [...]The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool[...] I try to keep that quote in mind at all times. I believe it holds a great deal of wisdom, especially for me. For I am loud and opinionated. But I still fail when I need it most, at times when I am surrounded by (people who IMHO are extreme) idiots.
That certainly borrows from Socrates: "I know one thing: that I know nothing."
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#8"As You Like It" by William Shakespeare Act 5, Scene 1: [...]The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool[...] I try to keep that quote in mind at all times. I believe it holds a great deal of wisdom, especially for me. For I am loud and opinionated. But I still fail when I need it most, at times when I am surrounded by (people who IMHO are extreme) idiots.
That certainly borrows from Socrates: " I know one thing: that I know nothing. "
Oh, my favorite Greek philosopher! :-)
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#9Anecdotal evidence from a fun show, plus the mandatory reference to Dunning-Kruger. "Unfortunately, Kruger and Dunning never actually provided any support for this type of just-world view; their studies categorically didn’t show that incompetent people are more confident or arrogant than competent people." http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-k...
> plus the mandatory reference to Dunning-Kruger.
Well, the article was written by David Dunning, the one the effect is half-named for, so it is almost literally mandatory that it is mentioned.
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#10I'm pretty sure that for the Kimmel segments, they ask the interviewees different questions and later edit in a different question that makes the original answer seem funny.
> I'm pretty sure that for the Kimmel segments, they ask the interviewees different questions
So, without evidence, you're confident of this?