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TEWSPilot
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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How funny! If anyone knows political know-nothingism, it's good ol' JK, himself.
"We have to pass the bill before we know what's in it." Talk about know-nothingism!
Jump on the clue train, Johnny - it wasn't a Republican who has been feeding the country lines like that. 
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fortdixlover
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| Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Navy_Navy_Navy wrote: | How funny! If anyone knows political know-nothingism, it's good ol' JK, himself.
"We have to pass the bill before we know what's in it." Talk about know-nothingism!
Jump on the clue train, Johnny - it wasn't a Republican who has been feeding the country lines like that. |
Classic example of the Dunning Kruger effect:
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence: because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. "Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[2]
It is named after this article:
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/unskilled.html
Justin Kruger and David Dunning
Department of Psychology
Cornell University
Abstract
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd. Several analyses linked this miscalibration to deficits in metacognitive skill, or the capacity to distinguish accuracy from error. Paradoxically, improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations of their abilities.
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GoophyDog
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Give him enough time and its once again Open mouth, Insert foot.
Or, considering his "war" service it would be "Take aim, shoot foot."
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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| fortdixlover wrote: | | Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. |
.... making life difficult for people who have to live with and work around the impossible conditions and consequences created by these people. I've known a couple of people like this in real life - working with them (or worse, for them) is an insane situation.
Fortunately, for the people who have to live with John Kerry's decisions, there is a solution at the polls. Undoing what he has helped to create is going to require a much more massive effort though.
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Me#1You#10
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| Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2010 6:19 am Post subject: |
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Taranto chimes in...
| Quote: | Vote for the Nut. It's Important.
Now Democrats say even Democrats are insane!
James Taranto
October 29, 2010
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Kaine is far from the only Democrat who is questioning the sanity of those who differ with the agenda of the liberal left. The Associated Press reports that John Kerry, the haughty, French-looking former junior senator from Massachusetts who by the way served in Vietnam, "unleashed a broadside Thursday":"It's absurd. We've lost our minds," said a clearly exasperated Kerry. "We're in a period of know-nothingism in the country, where truth and science and facts don't weigh in. It's all short-order, lowest common denominator, cheap-seat politics." Kerry was referring to an "energy" bill he was working on. By "truth and science and facts," he meant the "global warming" doctrine that was discredited in last year's Climategate scandal. And when he says "we've" lost our minds, he's doing a Bob Dole in reverse, using the first person plural to refer to everyone but himself. John Kerry is crazy enough to think John Kerry is the sane one.
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zinfella
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I loved the Rush Limbaugh response to John effing Kerry's remark about know-nothingness. Kerry is the guy that picked John Edwards as his running mate. ROFL, talk about not having a clue, Kerry is the epitome of that state of mind.
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TEWSPilot
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Another brilliant observation by a commenter at Michelle Malkin's blog:
| Quote: | | Somebody should ask him if he saw Blumenthal while he was in Vietnam. Maybe they celebrated Christmas of 68 together in Cambodia. |
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