Derpitude
“[A]n all-too-obvious feature of the modern
intellectual landscape: people who keep saying the same thing no matter how
much evidence accumulates that it’s completely wrong.”
—Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate
in economics and New York Times columnist, “Fighting the Derp,” The New York
Times, June 8, 2015
• Editorial Comment: It’s not derp if you believe it, is it?
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“Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones, in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.” —Tom Stoppard
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“The Dunning-Kruger effect, named after David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University, occurs where people fail to adequately assess their level of competence — or specifically, their incompetence — at a task and thus consider themselves much more competent than everyone else.”
ReplyDeleteOr, as Socrates put it, “I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy what I do not know.” —Attributed to Socrates, from Plato’s Apology http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
(Thanks to alert WORDster Barry Kort)