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Why politicians suck
Sep 10th, 2010 at 1:38pm
 
We tend to vote for people we see as confident. For maintaining confidence, it seems, ignorance is good and talent is bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is...
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Re: Why politicians suck
Reply #1 - Sep 10th, 2010 at 1:40pm
 
Well that explains sarah palin at least.
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