(February 1, 2019 at 11:33 am)AFTT47 Wrote: 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.
Two guys hear about Dunning Kruger for the first time.
The first guy feels just a little bit uneasy, thinking about the times the he became over confident about his own knowledge.
The second guy doesn't critically self examine himself at all, and immediately diagnoses the first guy with Dunning Kruger.
We do not inherit the world from our parents. We borrow it from our children.
