Forget Obama - Are YOU smart?

This is called Lake Wobegone effect named after the town where all the children are above average. I was reading an article recently on the Dunning Kruger effect which essentially says that less competent people rate their competence higher than it actually is, while more competent people humbly rate theirs lower.
Basically the stupid are too stupid to realize their stupid.
 
itera wrote:
bumping a 4yr old thread lol
what were you searching for to even come up with this ?
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It was an accident. I was on my phone on the toilet. I accidentally pressed the “poster” button, and the threads sorted by the poster. I saw this one and clicked on it. Seemed relevant, so I bumped it.
Now, back your regularly scheduled programming….
 
thommo77 wrote:
This is called Lake Wobegone effect named after the town where all the children are above average. I was reading an article recently on the Dunning Kruger effect which essentially says that less competent people rate their competence higher than it actually is, while more competent people humbly rate theirs lower.
Basically the stupid are too stupid to realize their stupid.
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Yup. How else do you think people would blame their lack of success on the system? The system is rigged! The man is holding me down!
 
I am quite sure I am in the top half of intelligence. Big deal.
Top decile: Driving (50 years old and no tickets or accidents)
Bottom decile: Flying an airplane. I am the rare case where you are much safer driving with me to the airport than flying with me. I have never had an accident, but flying does not come naturally to me.
Top decile: Height. Just how God made me.
Bottom decile: Disposition. Sometimes I am not much fun to be around.
 
Palantir wrote:
its not their fault, it’s their carb heavy diet amirite?
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LOL, yeah that’s one factor. Around 10,000 years of high carb (lack of meat) shrunk cranial capacity 11%, and the correlation with IQ is .4, so yeah carbs made them dumb before they were born.
So sad!
 
Top decile: Weight. Just how God and Whataburger made me.
Bottom decile: Ability to throw a football. I have a strange mental block when it comes to throwing a spiral. I have tried and I cannot do it. I hope my son never asks me to teach him.
 
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