The Dunning-Kruger effect

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Re: The Dunning-Kruger effect

Post by JW Frogen » Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:06 am

Guest wrote: The Man from Boys Town has a point ... and you too: Bush defeated his more intelligent opponents by understanding the DK effect - the more he lies to the Ignorant Who Know the more his support grows.
The more he lies to the "ignorant who know"?

And you may want to check the polls, his support has not been growing for a looooooong time. It is in the dumpster.

His political victories are more a matter of personal will (which he has in spades) and superior political strategy.
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Re: The Dunning-Kruger effect

Post by JW Frogen » Sat Oct 11, 2008 9:10 am

The Man from Boys Town wrote:The Republican candidates understand this effect -- both Palin and McCain have been exposed as liars yet continue to repeat the same lies... but couldn't you say that Obama is on the other end of this effect by overestimating voters?
Both camps have went negative and lied, from Obama's scrubbing his initial criticism of the surge from his web site, his false claims Mac wanted to fight in Iraq 100 years, to one ad so disgraceful even his VP pick Ego Joe said it should not be run.

The difference is Obama is a more effective hypocrit, he authorises but usually personally stays well away from his own mud so that he can remain ever the trancendant one.

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Re: The Dunning-Kruger effect

Post by The Man From Boys Town » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:38 am

Bush was re-elected in 04 even after it became clear the advice he ignored (that the US would become stuck in Iraq) was correct; millions of Americans were happy to stand behind Bush as he repeated his lies.

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Re: The Dunning-Kruger effect

Post by 516DPB » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:47 am

The Man From Boys Town wrote:Bush was re-elected in 04 even after it became clear the advice he ignored (that the US would become stuck in Iraq) was correct; millions of Americans were happy to stand behind Bush as he repeated his lies.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E

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Re: The Dunning-Kruger effect

Post by JW Frogen » Sat Oct 11, 2008 4:32 pm

The Man From Boys Town wrote:Bush was re-elected in 04 even after it became clear the advice he ignored (that the US would become stuck in Iraq) was correct; millions of Americans were happy to stand behind Bush as he repeated his lies.
Putting aside this post is the very symptom of the effect discussed I will aske what lies?

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Re: The Dunning-Kruger effect

Post by Guest » Sat Oct 11, 2008 11:34 pm

Ha! This effect explains talk radio and Bill O'Reilly.

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Re: The Dunning-Kruger effect

Post by Barack Obama bin Laden » Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:12 am

Yoda Dunning-Kruger was my English Lit tutor. I followed his advice and the farce is with me.

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Re: The Dunning-Kruger effect

Post by R2D2 » Sun Oct 12, 2008 12:58 am

516DPB wrote: The Dunning-Kruger Effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E
Isn't Alistair Cooke dead? Maybe Frogen could take up the mantle. JW Frogen's Heartland ... Letters from Dunning Kruger ...

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Re: The Dunning-Kruger effect

Post by JW Frogen » Sun Oct 12, 2008 4:37 pm

R2D2 wrote: Isn't Alistair Cooke dead? ..
If you read his autobiography he was dead long before he died.

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Re: The Dunning-Kruger effect

Post by Guest » Mon Oct 13, 2008 4:29 am

516DPB wrote:
The Man From Boys Town wrote:Bush was re-elected in 04 even after it became clear the advice he ignored (that the US would become stuck in Iraq) was correct; millions of Americans were happy to stand behind Bush as he repeated his lies.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxzmaXAg9E
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