Trumps Dangerous Disability? Its the Dunning-Kruger Effect

[Pluvious]

What is it to not know what you don't know ?

Last week, behavioral researchers at Brown University held a colloquium titled “Analytic thinking, bullshit receptivity, and fake news sensitivity.” At an informal gathering afterwards, the conversation turned to the not-completely-unrelated topic of Donald Trump.

Earlier that week, syndicated columnist George Will offered an amateur diagnosis of sorts. Will’s assessment, based on Trump’s off-base statements about the Civil War and other topics, was that the president suffers from a “dangerous disability” -- not only because he’s ignorant, and ignorant of his ignorance, but because he “does not know what it is to know something.”

It turns out Will is on to something, and not just because a few academics agree with him. His observations about Trump may have prompted him to independently discover a kind of meta-incompetence known as the Dunning-Kruger effect.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-05-12/trump-s-dangerous-disability-it-s-the-dunning-kruger-effect

[pansypoo53219]

1. the crazy low information uncle in the white house.

[czarjak]

2. Bullshit believers...

Gonna believe.

[Hortensis]

3. Very interesting. Thanks, Pluvius. "Pathologic inattention"

is also a term a NY Magazine article posted by another DUer, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/08/how-trump-could-get-fired, offered (in the context of how he might eventually be impeached).

Many experts believe he has a pathologically short attention span, which would lead to inattention.

This article would certainly explain how he could spend what must have been hours on site with engineers explaining in very simple terms the switch from hydraulic to electromagnetic catapults but and come out speaking vaguely of "digital" but nevertheless giving orders to abandon billions of dollars of new-technology electromagnetic to regress to hydraulic.

An obviously "weird" acquaintance of my sister once explained earnestly to me the function of pedestrian signals (as we stood at a curb), and over the afternoon much other information any 8-year-old understands perfectly well. Rump has infinitely better social skills, though.