an important read for everybody, a combination of game theory and horrible troof:
http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~leeey/stupidity/basic.htm
(i wasn't sure which subforum this would be particularly fitted to, but i didn't want it to become swamped in the random links thread either)
an interesting read, thanks for the link. I need to read this more before any further commentary.
"against stupidity the very Gods fight in vain." :lulz:
DO NOT READ THIS.
http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~leeey/stupidity/basic.htm
that was stupid
Good article, thanks for posting this.
Although, I'm curious how he experimentally determined the amounts of stupid in the blue-collar workers, white-collar workers, students, and professors.
Incredible find, 000. I would say that it is very pessimistic, but humanity has let me down one too many times.
how can we reduce the power of the stupid fraction is the question that immediatly comes to mind.
"When confronted for the first time with the Third Basic Law, rational people instinctively react with feelings of skepticism and incredulity. The fact is that reasonable people have difficulty in conceiving and understanding unreasonable behaviour. But let us abandon the lofty plane of theory and let us look pragmatically at our daily life. We all recollect occasions in which a fellow took an action which resulted in his gain and our loss: we had to deal with a bandit. We also recollect cases in which a fellow took an action which resulted in his loss and our gain: we had to deal with a helpless person. We can recollect cases in which a fellow took an action by which both parties gained: he was intelligent. Such cases do indeed occur. But upon thoughtful reflection you must admit that these are not the events which punctuate most frequently our daily life. Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of the improbable action of some preposterous creature who has nothing to gain and indeed gains nothing from causing us embarrassment, difficulties or harm. Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid. "
:lulz:
I also hope that most of us are familiar with the related Dunning-Kruger study on incompetency...
this must be why i'm so good at chess, my stupidity grants me the power of unpredictability.
Quote from: Nigel on October 06, 2008, 05:50:03 AM
I also hope that most of us are familiar with the related Dunning-Kruger study on incompetency...
nope, at least not by that name, can i has linky?
I've always had an innate sense of this idea, but never really gave it a ton of thought.
Excellent stuff.
:lol:
This brought to mind SOOOOOO many people.
hey i'm really glad that a year after posting, some people are getting good things from this.
i think i stumbled across it years before that as well, before i met Discordia.
Quote from: triple zero on October 06, 2008, 10:32:16 PM
hey i'm really glad that a year after posting, some people are getting good things from this.
i think i stumbled across it years before that as well, before i met Discordia.
If I had been here a year ago, I probably would have read it then and said the same thing.
I think I first saw this the same time 000 linked it here interestingly.