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The Dunning–Kruger effect
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge" - Charles Darwin
Yep, we all know that person, in my case that crowd...I need to go back and add that tag to a hundred articles...
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is.
Hmmm. I'd completely forgotten about this. The problem is that we all have our blindspots, and I sure as hell have mine...but, as the effect notes, I'm probably not able to see it...
Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately.
But my favorite has to be:
...The study was inspired by the case of McArthur Wheeler, a man who robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras....
Read more at the Wiki, and the next time you're speaking with that co-worker you might want to work in the term...
Note: In the event that you've seen me work a magic trick or a hot woman at a bar, I'm aware, I'm aware...It's only 9 parts incompetence, the other 1 part is entirely Irony...
Read through to the "See Also". Oh, yeah...
Warning Shadows: A Nocturnal Hallucination
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I'm watching silent films so you don't have to...
Silent film, 1923, German (what does it matter, it's silent?!!!), a deeply psychological look at an aristocratic gathering wherein all the unconscious desires of the nobility are given reign. Dreams, desires, sex and murder prevail, as represented by shadows, dreams and reflections, the gateways to the deeper unconscious...easily as rich as "El Topo", but without the color and dialogue a lot more difficult to follow. Nonetheless you'll get it, the stuff of what dreams and nightmares are made of, in the end, all comes right, merely a spell cast by the itinerant performer, but what a curious and intriguing ride...
Major Themes: Shadows, Doppelgangers, Dreams, Reflections, Lust, Sex, Death, Conscious, Unconscious
Links: http://www.filmsufi.com/2008/10/warning-shadows-arthur-robison-1923.html
http://thedevilsmanor.blogspot.ca/2012/09/warning-shadows-schatten-eine.html
http://www.classichorror.free-online.co.uk/shadows.htm
Watch Online Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4OcGxE60Gw
Odd that so little is written on a film that really, for the time, even now, is remarkably deep...
Sagittarius
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"Sagittarius". Found this thrifting, the medallion only, $4.00, 24 gold flashed, tin base metal, the chain, an old watch fob I had kicking around in my watch cabinet. Pretty sure the watch fob is solid gold, maybe only 10K, lacking hallmarks but it's definitely got the weight. The medallion, well, pretty sure it's tin with a 1 micron electroplate of 24 Karat Gold. The perfect introduction ... '"Sagittarius" I say smoothly, reaching forward to shake her hand...' How could I go wrong?
TED at 2X
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So a little under the weather, still, tired a bit but you have to spend some of the day awake, lunch, coffee, then back home, nap, up, bored...
No good reason to be bored if your me, it's a form of procrastination, surf the web, see what there is to see, catch up, talk to family, but I'm not so well that I'm getting anything done...
Watch recommended TED Talks on YouTube. Some are OK, most are just shit. At 15 or 20 minutes a video these create even more boredom than they dispel...
...but every talk has something, and reading the comments on one that promises to "Multiply your time" I discover that the key is to watch the videos at 2X their regular speed...find it, it's on YouTube, the settings icon in the lower right corner...
And sure enough, everything is still there, you can understand the speakers, less "meaningful" pauses, and if you watch them you'll notice that the acceleration makes people more or less plausible as they give their talks, it accelerates, accentuates their mannerisms, gives you a quicker insight into not only who they are but what they're telling you...
So, life is short, the internet, vast, Watch TED Talks at 2X the speed...
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