Make Humilty Great Again
- #2
Why nosotros all fall foul of the Dunning-Kruger effect - BBC Reel
We all observe information technology difficult to admit when nosotros might be wrong. In an increasingly polarised world, information technology seems as if people are becoming more convinced of their own beliefs and less willing to contemplate other points of view. Just could this exist to the detriment of our intelligence? In the 3rd part...
world wide web.bbc.com
Contrary to the popular line, information technology'southward not that we're necessarily wrong-but-in-deprival, information technology's that we are ignorant in some areas such that nosotros really don't know nosotros are wrong.
Ignorance is self-concealing.
- #3
I estimate the daily dose of Dunning-Kruger experience also became a much bigger issue since lots of discussions take place in the internet.
Information technology's fifty-fifty quite a normal affair that when you lot start to explore something you have a great involvement in talking about information technology.
There's this saying about the showtime 4 phases when doing something that's often mentioned in eastern (martial) arts like Aikido:
1. Beginner
2. Near a primary
3. Beginner
iv. Nevertheless a beginner (there are several versions of this, then this might not the well-nigh poetic version)
Notwithstanding, in improver to the Dunning-Kruger consequence 1 should non forget that there is besides
the fact that sometimes a very piddling cognition in combination with common sense may outrule
an enormous detailed knowledge in specific areas that has few connection to the "whole picture" and thereby overrules common sense.
That's basically the hermeneutic essence of the fairytale "The Emperor's New Clothes".
I've encountered this a lot in academia besides as in avantgarde music.
And a lot in my younger self. But this likewise goes for the Dunning-Kruger matter. And i judge
those both effects still happen. 
- #5
That's a neat sentence!
Perhaps information technology's indeed about finding the residue betwixt courage and humility...
el-bo
When life gives you lemons, swap 'em for mangos
- #xvi
Yeah! I only presume that on any given topic, in any given room, I know the least. Invariably I'k right, which is a win I'thousand happy to take 
Seriously, though: At nearly 50-years-onetime I am trying to encompass the realisation of how little I really do know. And while I wish to gloat the letting-go of the need to be correct, and to accept some semblance of an understanding of that which I don't know, information technology all comes crashing down when faced with little Youtube/Insta-tykes, 'running' around interim similar they are possessed of 'The Truth
'.
Yep, I get it...You lot're WOKE! Now piss off and let me alive my life!
Cheers for the video. Could do with some tips 
rgames
Collapsing the Wavefunction
- #17
At that place's a residuum. Intellectual humility means you sometimes defer to others on matters of fact.
But... to whom to you defer? The problem is people make that decision on the ground of emotion and, sometimes, who happens to be the loudest voice in their circumvolve. And the pepole they choose are oftentimes no smarter than they are.
So yes, question everything, including yourself. Simply never discount your own experience or knowledge.
The other consequence is that "facts" are actually very difficult to come by. Very basic physics gets close simply even there we have issues on what is factual.
In general, if you tin can express it mathematically and show information technology's true then it'south very shut to fact. Outside of that, opinion comes in to play.
A better approach to life is not to effigy out what is "fact" (unless you're one of those hardcore physicists) but to figure out what is "probably fact". For instance, is climate modify understood to the point of being factual? No. Is our understanding probably factual? Yes, and so all-time to act accordingly, specially in the absenteeism of whatever compelling reasons non to.
The problem arises when people care for things as "fact" when they're "probably fact" or "related to fact". Continuing on the climate alter case, back in 2009 or and then John Kerry famously said that the arctic would exist water ice-gratuitous in 2013. Of class, it was non, and even in 2021 the ice is still in that location. What he stated as fact was never considered fact by anyone in the know. But he had the phonation and influence. People use those kinds of examples to disbelieve what is "probably fact" or "related to fact". The response is "See. You're wrong. Therefore you're incorrect about everything."
The responsible thing to do is to admit the difference betwixt "fact" and "probably fact" or "related to fact." But that beliefs tends non to grab much attention. People like to be told things are black-and-white and the path is clear. Information technology'southward not.
rgames
- #19
I'm at the very least smart enough know that I'm woefully ignorant nigh near things and that this isn't going to change anytime soon. Mayhap because I'm as lazy equally I'm ignorant.
It's probably a good idea to know these things about yourself and at the same fourth dimension, environment yourself with people who do know what they're talking about, in areas where you may autumn brusque.
I mean, I (upwards to a indicate) taught myself breakthrough field theory, but I'm too last week'due south 'put-my-headphones-backwards-and-never-noticed-for-a-solid-half-hour-guy'. So at that place'due south that.
Being a bumbling idiot, in the dark about things sometimes doesn't scare me. It only ways that there'southward nonetheless a whole lot left to figure out. Pretty sure someone can find a proficient Feynman quote on that.
At to the lowest degree I know I can play a mean chip of Misfit Dabble. And that'due south an accented fact.
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