Steven Chase

The Dunning-Kruger Effect....
You may be hearing this term lately. I thought a concise explanation would be helpful for those not familiar.
People with 'low ability' overestimate their knowledge in a specific area. Essentially, these folks do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads to them engaging in erroneous forms of thinking and judging.

The effect was named after two Cornell University psychologists, David Dunning, PhD, and Justin Kruger, PhD. They coined the term in a paper on their observations of this behavior in 1999.

Tim adds:

That is what the "self-esteem" movement of the eighties was all about - puffing up these "low ability" types so as to make them even more ignorant and incapable of learning because of the arrogance instilled in them. The result? Good little ignorant foot soldiers in the Progressive revolution.

Now we have young people with egos the size of air craft carriers and capabilities more comparable with Huck Finn's river raft. And these people are now moving into positions of authority over us in government and other institutions.

My brother has been a professor of history for decades and he sees this in academia all the time. People with scant ability going on to full professorships not because of what they knew or their capabilities but because of what they espoused. A woman who promotes feminist lesbian issues is going to advance no matter how weak she actually is in research or her knowledge base.

A society can only survive so long with such mediocrities at the helm. The transmission of culture breaks down and the society crumbles under it's own weight. That is especially true in a multicultural society as most Western societies are now. Too many people pulling in opposite directions. What is needed is for institutions to reinforce the love of the dominant culture and to transmit it. And that is exactly what these puffed-up dimwits fail to do.

That is, of course, by design. The Progressive Left wants to remake the West in their own disfigured image. To do that they must first erase all vestiges of our culture and replace it with some Frankensteinian abomination. That's what we are seeing with things like the 1619 Project, which was a lie from the first word in "Nikole Hannah-Jones' thesis. It was intended to  twist history to suit a more radical interpretation and thus suppress our loyalty and devotion to the culture which has given us so very much.

I don't know if NHJ is one of the Dunning-Kruger kids or a clever manipulator. I suspect the former and she was just amplified by the radicals in Academia who were smart enough to see the value - and by the New York Times and others.

But it's clear we are being taken over by these dopes and they are in increasing positions of power in our society. Just look at Kamala Harris. Or Joe Biden (who was admittedly a mediocrity well before the self-esteem movement but was useful to special interests and corrupt tot he core.)

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