Ah yes, the Dunny-Clogger effect (as a friend of mine calls it). I run into it all the time in my field, mostly at the hands of self-appointed ‘experts’ (mostly on social media) who find some miniscule discrepancy between what they regard as ‘fact’ (a data-point accepted at face value without any concept of critical analysis) and my historiographical analysis, therefore everything I do is faulty: indeed, to them, my 35 years in my own profession, international recognition & awards etc, means I’m so stupid I can’t even figure out which way around to sit on a toilet. I regard this as totally unfair. I mean, you’re meant to hug the cistern aren’t you? A very off-putting essay collection. I expected it to be very appealing and instead I got a revamp on how some authors are not happy with some people (who might not be happy with these authors in the first place). For example, we’re not going to tolerate some homophobic bigot. If society is infinitely tolerant and liberal, that magnanimous approach will inevitability be exploited and destroyed by bigots. We can baffle in the moment. Or, if you’re a Daily Mail* reader, revel in it whilst you laugh at those stupid liberals. It’s because of our negativity bias that we find it easier to deal with an idiot than with a genius in a complex social setting. (c) Maybe? Or maybe we would be the idiots in this setting?

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Distraction. It would be the slightest degree of stupidity, which manifests itself in those who fail to achieve something because they don’t pay attention or don’t allocate sufficient resources, struggling uselessly. Inhoudelijk vind ik het prachtig dat zoveel aspecten aanbod komen. Ik had vooraf niet gedacht dat het zo’n uitgebreid verslag zou zijn van het onderzoek. Ook vroeg ik me vooral wel af wat er nu precies bedoelt werd met de titel. Zonder spoilers te geven kan ik zeggen dat het meer dan duidelijk wordt in de tekst. Wel kwam het geheel uiteindelijk voor mij ietwat te langdradig over. Dan werd een zelfde onderwerp net weer door iemand anders benaderd en uitgelegd. Dit maakt het onderzoek uiteraard volledig maar kan de lezer wel enigszins vervelen tijdens het lezen. As it happened, I was reading the book in any case, so happily agreed to provide the requested 3 minutes of audio commentary. For those who prefer reading to listening, the (fuller) text is posted after the audio. Audio clip of a review of “The Psychology of Stupidity”. Kahneman után sokkal könnyedebb vizekre evezünk, itt jön a media hatása, a gonoszság, nárcisztikus viselkedés a társadalomban, nagyonokos emberek nagyon buta döntései, és ezer más aspektusa a hülyeségnek neurológus, pszichiáter, pszichológus, szociológus, filozófus, matematikus, nemzetközi kapcsolatok szakértő, marketinges, mediaszakértő és író szemszögéből. Kicsit ránéz a politikára, a társadalmi folyamatokra, a közösségi mediára, arra, hogy az ember egyénileg, vagy csoportban okosabb-e, és hogy tényleg gonosz-e, akit gonosznak érzünk. A téma kimerítehetetlen, rengeteg idézett irodalom is bizonyítja amellett, hogy szinte tényleg minden tudományág foglalkozik az ostobasággal. Érdekes és szórakoztató könyv lett annak ellenére, hogy a szerkesztő francia, így a francia nyelv hülyeséget kifejező szavainak etimológiája is rendesen ki van dolgozva, illteve a szakirodalomlista is a francia nyelven megjelentekre súlyoz. Ez talán nem is baj, csak szokatalan. Dillard’s story reflects maturity and understanding from someone who was forced to mature and understand too much too soon.Perhaps the narcissistic society that keeps growing and that we’re growing in also plays a huge role in the characteristics of our new generations and of what they believe is “good” and “right”… I side with those who say that ignorance is not stupidity. Ignorance is a strong engine of knowledge, provided that you know you’re ignorant, and that you know what you don’t know. But we are unaware of most of the biases that affect our reception of information, and of the propensities that sway our reasoning. The problem, and it’s a serious one, is that even after these biases are exposed, they continue to work. All the more so in situations that are not conducive to doubt. Whereas stupidity, true stupidity, is the hallmark of a frightening intellectual complacency that leaves absolutely no room for doubt." Self-awareness is certainly one of the biggest steps anyone can take to at least appear intelligent. Being considerate an example of this. It would be beside the point to conduct large-scale psychological experiments to investigate collective folly. 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!!! I'm sorry but yes, that's what many people do all day long. Quoting Misericordia's review on Goodreads "The word usage was illuminating. asshole(s/ry) were used 118 times, idiot(s/ic/) 86 times, fool(s/hardy/ed) 83 times, and moron(s) 21 times". Nothing is more impressive than someone literally counting these words in a book 🤣

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PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Psychology_of_Stupidity_-_Jean-Francois_Marmion.pdf, The_Psychology_of_Stupidity_-_Jean-Francois_Marmion.epub Of course, the title of the book makes you want to read it. Everyone feels like they know people who do and say absurdly stupid things. I mean to vaccinate or not to vaccinate that is the question of our time… But I won’t claim to be highly intelligent, rather I find myself on the other side of the spectrum saying and doing stupid things without thinking before I utter the words that so easily flow out of my mouth. Thus, intrigued to find out more about why this is.Written with a conversational style in part and formal in another, I suppose that is to be expected when you have multiple authors. The work notes there isn’t a huge amount of research into the nature of human stupidity, which this book set out to correct. I absolutely hated it, partly because I can see why some people will love it. And, those people are exactly the ones who should not have their polarised “idiots vs. the rest of us” thinking reinforced in this way. Obviously, it’s the type of book anyone can sit there and read feeling smug about themselves. If you genuinely are stupid, you’ll sit there thinking, “Haha! Those stupid people! By reading this I have proven I am not stupid!”

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Rather than study the idiot as an object, psychological research focuses on understanding why people act like idiots sometimes.And so I proclaim, o idiots of every stripe and morons of all kinds, this is your moment of glory: this book speaks only to you. But you will not recognize yourselves… The important thing to remember about stupidity is it can get you fame, fortune, and high regard. Flutter one’s eyelids and frolic in meadows. Play the fool, and you shall be… [insert rhyme here]. Jean-Francois Marmion's book is not a unified effort that defines its terms. Some of the articles, to me, seem irrelevant, such as the chapter on whether our nighttime dreams can be stupid. But some of the chapters really seemed enlightening. Among my favorites were At last, stupidity explained! And by some of the world’s smartest people, among them Daniel Kahneman, Dan Ariely, Alison Gopnik, Howard Gardner, Antonio Damasio, Aaron James and Ryan Holiday.

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If you’re smart, what you’ll take from Marmion’s work (with all of its accomplished contributors) is how stupid we all are, in one way or another. The individuals he consults include: There's lots of rehashing on Dunning-Kruger effect implications (I happen to love this stuff, since it's everywhere). And there seem to be a lot more idiots considered than even I would have expected (even though I'm generally a very critically inclined person).And because the book is neither intellectually challenging, nor entirely accurate with regard to theory, and not motivated by a desire to improve public reasoning or discourse, rather than to simply belittle those who don’t conform to a certain intellectual type. Studies in the realm of belief always distinguish between the naïve credulity of greenhorns and the entrenched stupidity of old fools. It’s been proven that negative memories fade with time, whereas positive memories endure. This is why the older a person gets, the greater his tendency to regard the past in a positive light, which is why old fools like to complain wistfully, ‘Everything was better in the good old days.'” Malice leading to stupidity, ignorance, subservience—voting for the very thing making most people’s lives worse.