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Fear not. This is not an example of bigotry as I initially thought. It’s simply stupidity.

By Matthew Dicks | May 29, 2017 | Comments Off on Fear not. This is not an example of bigotry as I initially thought. It’s simply stupidity.

Behold. The White House published this photograph of First Lady Melania Trump and the other spouses of NATO leaders at the Royal Castle of Laeken in Brussels during the recent NATO summit. Initially left off the captioned list of names was the First Gentleman of Luxembourg, Gauthier Destenay, who is married Prime Minister Xavier Bettel, making Bettel…

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Stupid people think they’re smart, and smart people think they’re not. Most important: They can’t help it. This explains everything.

By Matthew Dicks | January 5, 2015 | Comments Off on Stupid people think they’re smart, and smart people think they’re not. Most important: They can’t help it. This explains everything.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias that causes incompetent people to believe they know more than they think they know. Unskilled individuals suffer from a false sense of superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is the result of the inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude.…

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