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Booter said:
Trump's base mindset/cult and the Dunning-Kruger effect

In the past, some prominent psychologists have explained President Donald Trump’s unwavering support by alluding to a well-established psychological phenomenon known as the “Dunning-Kruger effect.” The effect is a type of cognitive bias, where people with little expertise or ability assume they have superior expertise or ability. This overestimation occurs as a result of the fact that they don’t have enough knowledge to know they don’t have enough knowledge. Or, stated more harshly, they are “too dumb to know they are dumb.” This simple but loopy concept has been demonstrated dozens of times in well-controlled psychology studies and in a variety of contexts. However, until now, the effect had not been studied in one of the most obvious and important realms—political knowledge.

A new study published in the journal Political Psychology, carried out by the political scientist Ian Anson at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, not only found that the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to politics, it also appears to be exacerbated when partisan identities are made more salient. In other words, those who score low on political knowledge tend to overestimate their expertise even more when greater emphasis is placed on political affiliation.

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While the results of Anson’s study suggest that being uninformed leads to overconfidence across the political spectrum, studies have shown that Democrats now tend to be generally more educated than Republicans, making the latter more vulnerable to the Dunning-Kruger effect. In fact, a Pew Research Center poll released in March of this year found that 54 percent of college graduates identified as Democrats or leaned Democratic, compared to 39 percent who identified or leaned Republican.

Perhaps this helps explain why Trump supporters seem to be so easily tricked into believing obvious falsehoods when their leader delivers his “alternative facts” sprinkled with language designed to activate partisan identities. Because they lack knowledge but are confident that they do not, they are less likely than others to actually fact-check the claims that the President makes.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...se-mindset-cult-and-the-Dunning-Kruger-effect
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espola said:
HDS.
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Federal judge: Hillary e-mail dodge “one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency”
Ed Morrissey Dec 07, 2018 10:41 AM
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“At worst, career employees in the State and Justice Departments colluded to scuttle public scrutiny of Clinton
 
Bruddah IZ said:
She doesn't have to appear in the report. She appeared in the loser column in 2016 and that is the whole reason for the Mueller investigation. You people like skipping that fact.
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I see.
And Watergate was about McGovern!
I’m starting to see things on a deeper level.
And QE...
Thanks.
 
espola said:
Nonsense.
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Maybe not nonsense.
Watergate may have been about Hilary, right? Or the lib media? No difference.
Monicagate, the $50m blow-job investigation, was about Hilary.
Benghazi-gate...Hilary.
Travelgate...Hilary.
Iran/Contra...had to be Hilary.
Mueller...Hilary.
So after the Mueller thing washes out, let’s all see who resigned and who went to jail over all these scandals.
Gotta be Hilary. Lock her up!
 
messy said:
Maybe not nonsense.
Watergate may have been about Hilary, right? Or the lib media? No difference.
Monicagate, the $50m blow-job investigation, was about Hilary.
Benghazi-gate...Hilary.
Travelgate...Hilary.
Iran/Contra...had to be Hilary.
Mueller...Hilary.
So after the Mueller thing washes out, let’s all see who resigned and who went to jail over all these scandals.
Gotta be Hilary. Lock her up!
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How much is a Collusion crap out worth?
 
Bruddah IZ said:
QE or Tariffs? McGovern is Hillary after Transgender op.
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So Nixon was president. He was forced to resign.
Trump is president. We will see how he ends up.
Tell me about Hilary. Was she president? Was she forced to resign from anything? Or are you saying she is more powerful than Trump? Why, because she got more votes? Is that it?
 
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