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Comment Dunning-Kreuger effect (Score -1) 386

Sabine Hossenfelder claimed the same thing, with the same misunderstanding, a few years ago. She was a theoretical physicist, he a zoologist with focus on evolutionary biology, both brilliant, and both completely clueless in a field not their own.

Highly educated people are especially susceptible to the Dunning-Kreuger effect, as they assume their extensive knowledge in their own field gives them an elevated understanding in other fields, and it's especially pronounced when they "gang up" on someone whose politics they don't like. Worse, they are often influences, like Thunderf00t, a chemist who understands little of space flight or how business works. yet obsessively produces anti-SpaceX videos.

~2 years ago I saw a YouTube video of a Harvard audience openly ridicule Jordan Peterson about his recounting of lobster SSRI research in his own field, apparently not a psychiatrist or psychologist in the bunch, all because he was "right wing" in their minds and used the word "lobster." He was of course simply correctly describing the research in his own field. Dunning and Kreuger would be proud!

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