If you're like me, you hear the words coming out of the mouths of Tea Partiers, and you think, "you seem like a decent human being, so how on earth can you believe those things?" Of course, I don't want to tar all self-identified tea … [Read more...]
Tim, Steve and Dunning-Kruger
So now we have two prominent Massachusetts politicians who have made strident criticisms of health reform at the most critical moment. One, Tim Cahill, has left the Democrats, the other, Steve Lynch, thinks the party and the country is … [Read more...]
The Decade of Arrogance and Ignorance
You may recall that the Dunning-Kruger Effect shows that whereas people who do things well tend to underestimate their performance, the inept have no idea how bad they are. Indeed incompetent people consistently over estimate their … [Read more...]