I was looking at some comments on a dating site and I saw a question that someone had answered. It was “Why does the Earth experience differing seasons”. The answer chosen (incorrectly) was “Because the Earth rotates around its axis”. OK, no big deal this person answered the question, was incorrect but so what…
However, there is an explanation field for each question that you can either leave blank or give some further explanation to your answer of the above question.
You would use it to say “I’m not really into Earth physics but I think I’ve chosen the correct answer but I don’t really care” or something like that.
This person chose to add “Any 3rd grader would know the answer to this”
How can one be so confident of their incorrect answer They must know that they don’t really know that much about astronomy or astrophysics and yet they are cocky with their wrong answer!
I think that would be a tough personality type to live with…stupid but arrogant
The correct answer of course was “because of the tilt of the Earth in relation to the Sun”. Apparently they skipped their 3rd grade class that day
Reminds me of idiocracy
Pvt. Joe Bowers: [addressing Congress] … And there was a time in this country, a long time ago, when reading wasn’t just for fags and neither was writing. People wrote books and movies, movies that had stories so you cared whose ass it was and why it was farting, and I believe that time can come again!
For years I would Confidently correct someone when they referred to cloth-backed tape as “Duck” tape. I of course KNEW that the real name was “Duct” tape because it is used to seal the joints of duct work. I thought that they heard duct as duck and were merely repeating what the thought they heard. That part is probably true.
Anyway, one day I spent all of 2 minutes to research it and I was VERY surprised to find out that it was originally called “Duck” tape. It was invented during WWII and was made by applying adhesive to duck cloth and the top side was sealed to make it water-proof. It was called duck tape because water rolled off its’ back (like a duck) and it was made of duck cloth. The Wikipedia article is HERE
Now as far as using it as “Duct tape”
From the wikipedia article: Usage on ductwork
“The product now commonly called duct tape should not be confused with special tapes actually designed for sealing heating and ventilation ducts: this is not recommended by manufacturers……………….Its use in ducts has been prohibited by the state of California[3] and by building codes in most other places in the U.S. However, metalized and aluminum tapes used by professionals are still often called ”duck/duct tapes”.”
So actually, the originally it was called “Duck tape”, people misheard it as Duct tape” and because it looks like the product that is actually used to seal duct work, call it “Duct tape”
So for YEARS I was “Confidently Ignorant”
Now if I could only fully trust Wikipedia……………………………….
So the lesson I learned from all of this is that I (we) shouldn’t be so confident that we aren’t also Confidently Ignorant.
According to the Knight-Ridder News Service, the inscription on the metal bands used by the U.S. Department of the Interior to tag migratory birds has been changed. The bands used to bear the address of the Washington Biological Survey, abbreviated, "Wash. Biol. Surv." until the agency received the following letter from an Arkansas camper:
"Dear Sirs: While camping last week I shot one of your birds. I think it was a crow. I followed the cooking instructions on the leg tag and I want to tell you it was horrible."
When you see arrogance its rare almost impossible the what your witnessing is none other than a confident arrogant son of B—-. Unless of course the overly confident and arrogant son a b—h is
a politician.
I just purchased duct tape at Loews, copper tape with adhesive. I dont use it for duct work thats for sure but works great on drop-ins, and a better method of pacifying a confident & arrogant son of a b—-tch doesn’t exist.( poke a hole for nostrils)
Jack, This is a perfect example of how people can become C.I. I had a good laugh over this and took it as a joke, but it could be true. So I looked it up (not that anything I look up is 100% reliable) Someone could read this and take it as fact, after all it actually was reported on news wires. They would become C.I.
I could rant about this for hours , but it isn’t worth it…
You really should be neither surprised,nor let this bother you.
People most often speak & post comments, based on their opinions and personal bias.
I look at it like this. :
Ignorance and human stupidity, knows no boundaries.
Opinions are like As… we’ll you know the rest.
When a reply comes in the form of insults & name calling . It’s more often than not , because the person cannot offer a reasonable explanation as to why you are wrong , and they are right.
YOU WIN ! :bigsmile:
Do bear in mind, there’s at least a modicum of truth , in even the most inept of statements.
Charles Darwin once noted, “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority.
Wow you mention Darwin and the Dunning–Kruger effect all in the same post. I never heard of it by name but I am familiar with the concept. When I was in college I realized that the more I studied for a test, the more I realized I didn’t know all I should know for the test. Being OCD (that’s why many of us are here) I tended to over do it IF I was trying to do well. That caused problems for me so I had to let go.
Now before any of you shut out this next thought (that is being Confidently Ignorant) I would like you to read a quote that I believe talks about both Darwin and the Dunning-Kruger effect.
“20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools”
The last sentence, I believe is referring to Confident Ignorance, the rest refers to denying a creator in light of the evidence of creation all around them.
Indoctrination leads to Confident Ignorance, and I believe both sides of this issue are indoctrinated.
