{"id":33311,"date":"2018-04-11T05:54:58","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T10:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33311"},"modified":"2018-04-11T05:55:08","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T10:55:08","slug":"the-american-dunning-kruger-epidemic-or-why-ignorant-people-are-so-sure-theyre-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=33311","title":{"rendered":"The American Dunning-Kruger Epidemic (Or Why Ignorant People Are So Sure They\u2019re Right)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The American Dunning-Kruger Epidemic (Or Why Ignorant People Are So Sure They\u2019re Right)<\/a><\/h3>\n

It\u2019s time to address an epidemic in the United States. It\u2019s one that could be deadly, particularly to liberty.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an epidemic of Dunning-Kruger. It\u2019s why ignorant people are so certain that they\u2019re right.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s that, you ask?<\/p>\n

The Dunning Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which individuals, who are unskilled at a particular task, believe themselves to possess above-average ability in performing the task. On the other hand, as individuals become more skilled in a particular task, they may mistakenly believe that they possess below-average ability in performing those tasks because they may assume that all others possess equal or greater ability. In other words, \u201cthe miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.\u201d (source<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And haven\u2019t we all seen that lately? Let\u2019s look at a recent example right here in the good ole USA.<\/p>\n

Those who haven\u2019t lived like the rest of us are the ones shouting the loudest.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s start with the current gun control debate.<\/p>\n

We have high school kids who think they are experts on policy, firearms, and the Constitution, smugly telling us how clueless they believe we are.<\/p>\n

We have movie stars who make millions from movies where they shoot people and who are protected by armed security guards, telling us that we law-abiding citizens who have guns are vicariously responsible for every school shooting that has ever happened.<\/p>\n

We have wealthy city dwellers who live in buildings with doormen telling the rest of us that we\u2019re nuts for wanting to protect ourselves.<\/p>\n

And all of these people who want to loudly tell the rest of us how to live our lives have one thing in common: they are completely out of touch with the real world.<\/p>\n

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The American Dunning-Kruger Epidemic (Or Why Ignorant People Are So Sure They\u2019re Right) It\u2019s time to address an epidemic in the United States. It\u2019s one that could be deadly, particularly to liberty. It\u2019s an epidemic of Dunning-Kruger. It\u2019s why ignorant people are so certain that they\u2019re right. What\u2019s that, you ask? The Dunning Kruger effect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1251,6156,18280,19759,5837],"class_list":["post-33311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-cognitive-bias","tag-daisy-luther","tag-dunning-kruger-effect","tag-gun-control","tag-organic-prepper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33313,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33311\/revisions\/33313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}