Huge wrote:
On 2013-08-12, Steve Firth wrote:
Bill Wright wrote:
Steve Firth wrote:

Why are you always saying other people are stupid?
Why are people so stupid?
If you're going through life thinking that 'people' are stupid you could
have a little psychological quirk.

Well I don't think animals are stupid. Maybe you should learn something
about stupidity?

http://www.cantrip.org/stupidity.html

Nice.

A friend of mine extended Cipolla's idea and write "The Power of Stupidity"
which is also worth a read. Although he was a tad ****ed off when I pointed
out that basic idea had been hammered out by Henry Kuttner in 1951 with the
story "Day of the Moron".

http://www.gandalf.it/stupid/chapters.htm

Googling "Dunning-Kruger Effect" is illuminating, also.

Heh, without that Usenet would be very different. No Sexually Transmitted
Cole with his grand reforms of UK usenet for a start.

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