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>“the problem with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt.” Is it me or does everyone find that dumb people seem to
by gopheryourshelf 1y ago
>“the problem with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, while the intelligent are full of doubt.”
Is it me or does everyone find that dumb people seem to use this statement more than ever?
- stevenwoo 1y agoIt appears to be a paraphrasing of William Butler Yeats https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Coming_(poem)
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 1y agoUgh. You can be cocksure of your doubts. It's still confidence, duh.
- aeve890 1y agoEveryone thinks they're the intelligent ones, of course. Which reinforces the repetition ad nauseam of Dunning Kruger. Which is on itself dumb AF because the effect described by Dunning and Kruger has been repeatedly exaggerated and misinterpreted. Which in turn is even dumber because Dunning-Kruger effect is debatable and reproducibility is weak at best.