This shall be henceforth known as "The Dunning-Kruger paper". ;) Certainly, overconfidence and negative attitudes cloud public debate and popularization of con

This shall be henceforth known as "The Dunning-Kruger paper". ;) Certainly, overconfidence and negative attitudes cloud public debate and popularization of conclusions. I've unfortunately come across narcissistic CEO/VC types who believe they have "all" of the answers, when instead they may have a corner of the Rosetta stone or a piece of lint. STEM knowledge must be tempered with data and supported conclusions over non-experimental biases. The larger issues are behavioral pathologies when people appear to believe they have a superior special monopoly on knowledge, experience, or being. Another pathology is anti-intellectualism, which runs deep in America.