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Tommy_Carcetti

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7. So Dunning-Kruger effect?

Reply to MrScorpio (Original post)

Mon Oct 23, 2017, 12:54 PM

Oct 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude.

Without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence

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Trump obviously doesnt understand that he lacks credibility on everything [View all] MrScorpio Oct 2017 OP

He doesn't care C_U_L8R Oct 2017 #1

+1, EVEN the people who support him understand he's a liar to the nth degree uponit7771 Oct 2017 #2

But they still believe his bullshit anyway, even though they know it's a lie. smirkymonkey Oct 2017 #8

His base supports him because he doesn't shut up dalton99a Oct 2017 #3

He has to lie repeatedly hvn_nbr_2 Oct 2017 #4

Trump is a liar and so no one trusts him Gothmog Oct 2017 #5

I would argue 80 percent do not trust him. Why 80? Stuart G Oct 2017 #6

So Dunning-Kruger effect? Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 #7