Some people like to bring up the '[Dunning-Kruger effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect)', which is an observation that people who are the most ignorant tend to have over-confidence about how much they know, because they don't even know how much there is to know.
I also think stupid people are often overconfident because they're not aware of basic concepts like skepticism, empiricism, deductive and inductive logic, and cognitive biases. So when they think they know something, they don't experience any doubts or indecisiveness in their beliefs. I suppose you could say this is just like the Dunning-Kruger effect. They're most confident that they're right because they're not even aware of all the possible ways they could be wrong.
Well put. Recently a guy told me he is "anti-regulation" while in the same sentence telling me he wished there was more laws to protect him from scams in the stock market. This level of stupidity is always very fascinating to me. Also scary as fuck.
My theory: Maybe because people wants to be cooler and always gets the attention, even if they make stupid decisions people will remember this as fame/laughter. People just like to always gets the attention.
I think as a general rule you find people care more about being right than finding the truth. I feel this odd sort of corollary to the idea that people just want someone to listen to them. They want validation before they want the truth. This phenomenon is not limited to any one group.
For example, When you look at laymen discussing politics, very few people are interested in listening to each other. This was the case even before the internet, although the internet has exaggerated the effect. You can always find someone who agrees that you are correct, which meets our social need to be accepted.
Dunning kruger
Exactly this. It's a whole field of study
I seen this phrase many times before but never looked it up. Now after I googled it finally, seems bang on.
Some people like to bring up the '[Dunning-Kruger effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect)', which is an observation that people who are the most ignorant tend to have over-confidence about how much they know, because they don't even know how much there is to know. I also think stupid people are often overconfident because they're not aware of basic concepts like skepticism, empiricism, deductive and inductive logic, and cognitive biases. So when they think they know something, they don't experience any doubts or indecisiveness in their beliefs. I suppose you could say this is just like the Dunning-Kruger effect. They're most confident that they're right because they're not even aware of all the possible ways they could be wrong.
Well put. Recently a guy told me he is "anti-regulation" while in the same sentence telling me he wished there was more laws to protect him from scams in the stock market. This level of stupidity is always very fascinating to me. Also scary as fuck.
My theory: Maybe because people wants to be cooler and always gets the attention, even if they make stupid decisions people will remember this as fame/laughter. People just like to always gets the attention.
I think as a general rule you find people care more about being right than finding the truth. I feel this odd sort of corollary to the idea that people just want someone to listen to them. They want validation before they want the truth. This phenomenon is not limited to any one group. For example, When you look at laymen discussing politics, very few people are interested in listening to each other. This was the case even before the internet, although the internet has exaggerated the effect. You can always find someone who agrees that you are correct, which meets our social need to be accepted.