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“Maybe conversations and arguments fail because one—or both—of the parties is just stupid. These are fighting words. No one likes to be called stupid: it’s a judgmental, harsh word that implies not only a lack of intelligence, but a willful ignorance almost to the point of moral failure. (I have used it, more than I should. So have you, most likely.)”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
“the more specific reason that unskilled or incompetent people overestimate their abilities far more than others is because they lack a key skill called “metacognition.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
“The Dunning-Kruger Effect, in sum, means that the dumber you are, the more confident you are that you’re not actually dumb.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
“In 1943, incoming college freshmen—only 6 percent of whom could list the original thirteen colonies—named Abraham Lincoln as the first president and the one who “emaciated [sic] the slaves.” The”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
“These are dangerous times. Never have so many people had so much access to so much knowledge and yet have been so resistant to learning anything. In the United States and other developed nations, otherwise intelligent people denigrate intellectual achievement and reject the advice of experts. Not only do increasing numbers of laypeople lack basic knowledge, they reject fundamental rules of evidence and refuse to learn how to make a logical argument.”
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
― The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters
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