LaoDan wrote:I am not a specialist in human psychology, but much of the Dunning-Kruger effect can be used to explain many behaviors that I see.
Individuals on the lower end of the intelligence or experience or wisdom axis, i.e., “the peak of ‘Mt. Stupid’,” tend to act in predictable ways (some refer to as signs of stupidity/low intelligence).
https://www.psychmechanics.com/signs-of-low-intelligence/We can look at Trump to see many of these characteristics, for example, the insistence that they are the smartest and only they can fix things; the vicious attacks (including verbal, but for many also including physical) on opponents; the evasiveness (not meaning things the way they are taken, just joking, being misunderstood…); insisting that they are never wrong, and “doubling down” whenever they are questioned; lack of empathy, and difficulty of reflection on things, and lack of open-mindedness; black and white thinking; bullying; etc.
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Apropos that you'd post that chart and follow it with a link to dude's "16 signs..." While grinding blade today, I was actually cudding on the ideas of confidence and skill and the undertaking of a new/novel project with no prior experience or method by which the project could be commenced, and how, in my personal experience, it's actually an act of faith in oneself more than it is an abundance of confidence.
One of my nephews brought me a Canary wood board about 20 years ago and asked me to make him a fighting staff. While shaping the staff, I was amazed at how tough and dense canary wood is while exhibiting some pretty decent flexibility and harmonics/resonance. The leftover strips stood in a corner for several years before I got the notion to try making a bow with some of it. I'd built well over 100 bows before that, and have since made more than a dozen bows with canary in a few different configurations (laminated R/D. self, and laminated D-section longbows). I was unable to find any examples of canary ever being used as a bow wood before I started building with it, so I was flying blind in terms of design, draw-length, draw-weight, sectional dimensions, etc. Being that it takes me about fifty hours to make a bow, it really sucks and is heartbreaking when one fails, so there's lots of adrenaline, trepidation and belief in the unbelievable throughout the entire process. I experienced the same state while making my first bow out of padauk wood since I could find no examples of that wood being used for bows either.
Anyway, I don't know if you realize it or not, but any one fully in agreement with Parvez's list is planting their own flag of ignorance alongside his on the summit of Mt. Stupid. His particular use of stereotypes, absolutes and generalizations are the legs upon which snobs climb to the ivory heights of deluded exceptionalism.
And your commentary on trump says more about your own ethical consistency than it does his. Even though he wishes death on the hesitant, you could take a lesson from Dmitri.