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What a bad article. Here's the original one: http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2187-incompetent-people-ignorant.html http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2187-
by Sandman 15y ago
What a bad article. Here's the original one: http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2187-incompetent-people-ignorant.html http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/2187-incompetent-people-...
The original article basically claims that people who are incompetent at something will have a hard time recognising people who are competent and their own level of incompetence. Fine, that makes sense. But how on earth did this get turned into "Americans too dumb for democracy"? This is just taking some of the claims from the original article and blowing them out of proportion.
- redcircle 15y agoIt is as if the author wants to use himself to prove his point.
- cheald 15y agoIndeed. This is a big problem with the self-styled intelligentsia; they point to others who are not as smart as they are, and cite them as evidence that they cannot possibly be ignorant, because they aren't as ignorant as those they look down on. Wisdom begins with recognizing that you don't know everything, can't know everything, and generally assuming that you're wrong or uninformed until you can prove otherwise. The immediate presumption that you're right, and arrogance or indignation when it's suggested otherwise is a huge indicator that you're probably suffering the Dunning-Kruger effect.