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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDarwin summed it up succinctly:
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
2naSalit
(86,622 posts)Not funny "haha" kind of funny.
multigraincracker
(32,683 posts)Dunning-Kruger effect - Wikipedia
The Dunning-Kruger effect is defined as the tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability. This is often understood as a cognitive bias, i.e. as a systematic tendency to engage in erroneous forms of thinking and judging. Biases are systematic in the sense that they occur consistently ...
XacerbatedDem
(511 posts)speak easy
(9,249 posts)'for their sins'.
Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,461 posts)
a great book 15 years ago called The Assault on Reason. Even while warning about the potential pitfalls of the decline of reason, he was so naively optimistic about how the internet would unfold.
We are genuinely surrounded by idiots who both vote and run for office on the platforms of their idiocies.
mobeau69
(11,144 posts)OMGWTF
(3,955 posts)Martin68
(22,801 posts)But I imagine even the Bible provides examples of the same. And Shakespeare.
bringthePaine
(1,728 posts)czarjak
(11,277 posts)calimary
(81,267 posts)Joinfortmill
(14,422 posts)Skittles
(153,160 posts)and it is much easier to campaign on ignorance and fear that to campaign based on hope and progress