The Psychology of Stupidity: Explained by Some of the World's Smartest People

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Jean-François Marmion (editor) is a psychologist, an associate editor of the French journal Sciences Humaines [ Social Sciences], and a former editor-in-chief of the French magazine Le Cercle Psy [ Psychological Circle]. In a paper, which is now a modern classic, Justin Kruger and David Dunning (1999) gave their participants various tests, they scored the tests, and they asked each participant to estimate what percentage of test-takers did worse than they themselves did. Toch is het nieuwe van de huidige tijd dat één idioot en een rode knop al genoeg zijn om de domheid uit te roeien, en de hele wereld incluis. Jean-Francois Marmion (editor) is a psychologist, an associate editor of the French journal Sciences Humaines ( Social Sciences), and a former editor-in-chief of the French magazine Le Cercle Psy ( Psychological Circle).

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The fool takes his beliefs for truths graven in marble, whereas all true knowledge is built on sand.Everything that could be proven in the lab is experienced every day in offices, where collective efforts in meetings produce so many stupid ideas … (c) YESS! The book isa different kind of read, comprised of articles, interviews, and essays by experts in the field of psychology and philosophy.

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It has no flow or coherence, moving from chapters abusing the “stupid”, to reflections on cognition and human psychology, with no clear linkages between the two. Four cards are on the table with one showing a vowel, one a consonant, one an even number, and one an odd number. Written in a fluid, conversational style it is easy to become immersed in what these experts are espousing. By reaching out to some of the world’s leading intellects, Marmion pieced together this intriguing account on dumb people like us and everything that makes us tick.e., what percentages of others they think they outperformed) were even higher than the estimates provided by intermediate performers. Met grote regelmaat kom je tijdens het lezen kunstzinnige afbeeldingen tegen die mij deden denken aan het werk van onder andere Dali en Margritte.

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A performance test that is itself a task of rule detection over items confronts the test taker with a decision problem. Stupidity is all around us, from the colleagues who won’t stop hitting ‘reply all’ to the former school friends posting conspiracy theories on Facebook. Maar het zo treffend onder woorden brengen en uiteenzetten laat ik graag over aan de wetenschappers. Thank you to Penguin for giving me a free galley of "The Psychology of Stupidity" in exchange for feedback.Jacques Rousseau teaches critical thinking and ethics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and is the founder and director of the Free Society Institute, a non-profit organisation promoting secular humanism and scientific reasoning. I expected the interview with Daniel Kahneman to be a good read, but it was very short and did not cover anything new to me. An interesting and incredibly ironic addition to a book that mentions groupthink and social conformity. In The Psychology of Stupidity, some of the world’s leading psychologists and thinkers – including a Nobel Prize winner – will show you .

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Studies in the realm of belief always distinguish between the naïve credulity of greenhorns and the entrenched stupidity of old fools. Plotting estimates of own performance against measured performance, they find a U-shaped curve, which amounts to a quadratic trend in statistical analysis. Self-awareness is certainly one of the biggest steps anyone can take to at least appear intelligent. And if he can do that in the name of some higher ideal, he won't hesitate to attack the scum that your existence represents for him, with utter impunity.If you view our experience as a species as a collective exercise, then it’s of the utmost intigue to think, “Why are so many people so stupid? This will allow us to gain a relatively precise idea of the idiot (interfering, stupid, rather limited in attention span or intellect), and of some of their variations, such as the conceited, brutal blowhard, whose stupidity contains an element of toxic narcissism, not to mention a total lack of empathy.