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The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Religious Belief
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Religious Belief
February 1, 2019 at 11:33 am
This article looks at what the author describes as our brain hiding its own blind spots from us. There is a tendency to overestimate our abilities in areas we're not good at.

The article talks about the Dunning-Kruger effect at work in Donald Trump but I think it's applicable to religious belief as well. The author claims that a person who is poor at logic will be inhibited from recognizing that fact.
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Religious Belief - by AFTT47 - February 1, 2019 at 11:33 am

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