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Odin2005

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17. The Lake Wobegon Effect.

Reply to stevenleser (Original post)

Sat May 5, 2012, 01:34 PM

May 2012

Everyone thinks they are above average.

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Explanation for Dan Quayle, Sarah Palin and George W. Bush's opinions of themselves? Dunning-Kruger [View all] stevenleser May 2012 OP

Kindly include Gov. Rick Perry with this elite group Zambero May 2012 #1

Agreed. All of them fit. stevenleser May 2012 #3

why stop there? unblock May 2012 #6

I think most are willfully corrupt rather than incompetent. They choose to fuck us over. nt valerief May 2012 #11

i agree they are willfully corrupt as far as their positions go. but they're incompetent unblock May 2012 #19

Mentally lazy and incurious maybe. Incompetent makes it sound like they valerief May 2012 #23

The willfully corrupt are usrname May 2012 #20

And those guys are only the agents for the truly corrupt--the gazillionaires who run the planet. nt valerief May 2012 #24

allen west, too SemperEadem May 2012 #7

I linked this in edhopper May 2012 #2

i agree with dunning-kruger, but more important is the anti-intellectualism in politics unblock May 2012 #4

the electorate who are brainwashed, by and large SemperEadem May 2012 #8

I disagree. grasswire May 2012 #5

I think we need to differentiate between pscot May 2012 #9

Totally agree with you maddiemom May 2012 #14

I've long had an aphorism that describes these people Alcibiades May 2012 #10

A D-K rehash is always welcome nt MrScorpio May 2012 #12

Yup, too fucking stupid to even know they're stupid! 11 Bravo May 2012 #13

Smart people are stupid TrogL May 2012 #15

Or just basing their facts on a belief system IDemo May 2012 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author LASlibinSC May 2012 #21

uhh..What is K-W? LASlibinSC May 2012 #22

D-K, not K-W IDemo May 2012 #25

Thank you..my bad! LASlibinSC May 2012 #26

The Lake Wobegon Effect. Odin2005 May 2012 #17

I agree. There are things about various subjects that I realize I don't know enough about to know what I don't know. LASlibinSC May 2012 #18

More on Dunning Kruger no_hypocrisy May 2012 #27

Great link, thank you! LASlibinSC May 2012 #28

Don't laugh. Found it on my F/B page when I woke up. no_hypocrisy May 2012 #29

The 1% aren't incompetent, and they generally get the best gov't they can buy. leveymg May 2012 #30

But it does apply to many of those they put in power. stevenleser May 2012 #31

Bush the Lesser comes to mind first, of course. leveymg May 2012 #32