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Title: primitives find word that describes them; falsely believe it applies to others
Post by: USA4ME on November 12, 2009, 05:21:21 PM
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Are_grits_groceries
 
There is a scientific term for 'Teh Stupid.'
 
Dunning-Kruger Effect

What is the Dunning-Kruger Effect?

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it".

The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than actuality; by contrast the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to a perverse result where less competent people will rate their own ability higher than relatively more competent people.

Too dumb to realize that they're dumb.

http://j-walkblog.com /

Call them DKs.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7002193

We've know this all along.  The words "DUmmie" and "primitive" have been two very accurate words to describe these type of individuals.  Now we can add "DK" to the mix.

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Title: Re: primitives find word that describes them; falsely believe it applies to others
Post by: franksolich on November 12, 2009, 05:23:43 PM
Wow.

What a find.

I thank you, sir.

It furthers my anthropological work on the primitives.
Title: Re: primitives find word that describes them; falsely believe it applies to others
Post by: thundley4 on November 12, 2009, 05:28:06 PM
The primitive Dummies won't even realize how much this applies to themselves.
Title: Re: primitives find word that describes them; falsely believe it applies to others
Post by: GOBUCKS on November 12, 2009, 05:42:57 PM
We've know this all along.  The words "DUmmie" and "primitive" have been two very accurate words to describe these type of individuals.  Now we can add "DK" to the mix.

We can't use "DK" to denote Teh Stupid, because it's already used for "Dennis Kucinich".
Oh, wait...never mind.
Title: Re: primitives find word that describes them; falsely believe it applies to others
Post by: crockspot on November 12, 2009, 11:26:28 PM
Maybe Are_grits_groceries is a mole?
Title: Re: primitives find word that describes them; falsely believe it applies to others
Post by: AllosaursRus on November 13, 2009, 12:33:20 AM
Maybe Are_grits_groceries is a mole?

As he actually knows what "grits" is, could be!
Title: Re: primitives find word that describes them; falsely believe it applies to others
Post by: jukin on November 13, 2009, 01:42:58 PM
Fantastic Pot/Kettle post.