RE: The Dunning-Kruger Effect and Religious Belief
March 9, 2019 at 1:41 pm
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2019 at 2:06 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(February 1, 2019 at 7:40 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(February 1, 2019 at 12:12 pm)Yonadav Wrote: 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.
This is important!
Part of overrating one's own intelligence is assuming that only one's opponents are capable of overrating their intelligence.
That depends really on who you, the other and the situation happen to be.
(March 9, 2019 at 1:31 pm)sdelsolray Wrote: Looks like poster Dirch is a Trump and Hannity acolyte. That explains much. It's also amusing.
Go and seek out any revolting loud mouthed ignoramus, and you would find drich has either already surpassed him or is diligently working to do so while affecting to be his acolyte.
(February 1, 2019 at 12:12 pm)Yonadav Wrote:(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.
Is there a name for a psychiatric condition that causes one to imagines himself to be the indispensable didact in any situation, the voice of everyone else’s conscience, the appointed spokesman of rectitude, and the natural arbiter in any moral dispute?