"Why ignorance fails to recognize itself" Featuring David Dunning
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Published 2017-11-30
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All Comments (21)
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Ignorance is rarely declared, but easily found. Wisdom is rarely found, but easily declared.
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"Against stupidity we are defenseless", Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It's hard to win a debate against a genius, but it's impossible to win a debate against a stupid person.
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I now better understand why, years ago, when I sang for myself I knew I was great, but that when I sang for others, the reviews were poor. In retrospect, it's sad that the members of my audience so grossly overestimated their abilities to evaluate singing talent. I'm deeply grateful to Dr. Dunning for helping to finally clear this up.
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the main criteria for winning popular political leadership is the abiilty to speak confidently (and with 'heartfelt' conviction) on all manner of things that one knows little about. And these are the people that end up running the country.
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Seems to me that the most common reaction to learning about the Dunning-Kruger effect is a knee-jerk presumption of individual immunity from it.
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"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about." (Wayne Dyer)
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“It’s easier to trick someone into believing than it is to convince someone they've been tricked” - Mark Twain (?)
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“All it takes is ignorance and confidence, and success is sure.” —Mark Twain
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My motto is when I’m the smartest person in the room then the place is screwed and I need to GTFO…
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The older I become, the more aware I become of how little I understand about almost everything. We all spend our best years mostly fumbling about. It is only close to our end does humility begin to open our minds. The great paradox of life.
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"I am not young enough to know everything." Oscar Wilde
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The more I learn, the less I realize I know.
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Explaining to some one that there are things that people are unaware of to the extent that we aren't even aware we are unaware of is a daunting task.
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A madman who knows he is mad is much less mad than a madman who does not know that he is mad
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I'm completely ignorant. But I'm also uninformed, perpetually lied to, and kept in that position by people who think they are not ignorant.
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This seems to be a subset of what I often tell my children, people believe what they want to believe and hear what they want to hear. What people say and do often is a function of their need to protect their self worth. Therefore everyone must be above-average in their own eyes. Self-examination and change is a huge effort. There is no money in telling people what they don't want to hear.
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One has to take Sociopathy/Psycopathy and Narcissism into account as well. Stable geniuses, never wrong, know everything....etc, etc, etc.
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." ― Aldous Huxley
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Ignorance fails to recognize itself, in part, because it is encouraged and celebrated in the world. In essence, we train people to be ignorant. Church, synagogue, mosque are three huge culprits in this… but so often, family dynamics generate the same result. And then there is nationalism, and ugly history to suppress, and all manner of other factors designed and determined to keep us ignorant.
