Tired Of Daily Dunning-Kruger Stupidity Spewing With No End In Sight

On Facebook, almost every day, I see postings from a wanton Trumper MAGA-NUT, so embarrassingly stupid, and yet so indictive of the moronic nonsense the army of Trumpers believe, without question, that I see it as a window into how ignorantly stupid these people are.

This particular individual was in my high school class. He had flunked a grade or two before he ended up in my class. He was unable to graduate high school.

Would one not think if you knew you had trouble with the school learning stuff, that just maybe your understanding of the real world might be a tad faulty?

But, this is classic Dunning-Kruger Effect. Too stupid to know you're stupid.

Can you imagine being so stupid you could read the above and think it makes any sense or has any grounding in the real world? And then post it on Facebook.

If you asked one of these ignorant sorts to explain what Liberal meant. Or what Conservative meant. You'd hear a spew of idiocy.

Ask one of them lamenting Socialism what Socialism is and you get a big nothing. 

Ask one of them if they can describe the Socialist aspects of America? Our public education system. Our highway system. Social Security. Medicare. Medicaid. The military. Public libraries. National Parks. State Parks. City Parks. And more. They have zero clue, what Socialism is, which they so stupidly ignorantly lament.

Ask one of them what upsets them so about Communism and you'd either hear a spew of idiotic nonsense, or just a blank stare.

Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Too stupid to know you're stupid. It seems to be almost a COVID level epidemic. At least this epidemic is not world-wide. Just America is suffering. I tire of it, and long for a vaccination...

Excessive Facebook Commenting Correlates With Psychopathy & Machiavellianism

I saw that which you see here on Facebook a couple days ago.

This particular Facebook post did not indicate who these psychologists were who determined habitual Internet commenting correlated with hateful personality pathologies. Or how it was the amount of time spent doing so somehow related to sadism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism.

Machiavellianism? Making a lot of comments has you being Machiavellian? As in a scheming prince of a manipulator?

I have actually observed a person with a very hateful personality who did do a lot of online commenting who did come across as a bit of a psychopath. But Machiavellian? She was far too stupid to be Machiavellian.

Anyway, this Machiavellian online commenter thing somehow led me to an effect I had not heard of before, that being the Dunning–Kruger effect. A blurb from the Wikipedia article about this very serious effect....

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.

Interesting, the illusory superiority part of this Dunning-Kruger effect thing also describes the aforementioned inept psychopath with the hateful personality.

The online comments of that particular psychopath do come across as hateful, mean-spirited, trying to start a fight, frequently called a "troll", yet more than anything, coming across as an ignorant, stupid, know-it-all.

Wait a second. Am I describing myself?

Anyway, I'm done being Machiavellian now.....