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[–] david@feddit.uk 123 points 2 years ago (3 children)

When you find out about Dunning-Kruger and realise that that's why everyone else in the world is so stupid apart from you.

[–] Conradfart@lemmy.ca 68 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unlike most people, I see what you did there.

[–] weedazz@lemmy.world 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"You ever notice how stupid the average person is? Now realize that half of them are dumber than that!"

[–] Eylrid@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

grabs popcorn to watch inevitable argument about mean vs median

[–] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Central Limit Theorem 🤝 Me in first year stats

"Mean and Median are the same"

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'll be "IQ is a normalized distribution", someone else take "IQ isn't intelligence"

[–] Eylrid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

I'll take "IQ is a flawed measure of intelligence, but intelligence is probably still normally distributed"

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I sometimes genuinely expect people to know "basic quantum mechanics" and I'll start ranting about it as if they have some background knowledge and then when I saw the moon might not exist if I don't look at it my roommate looks at me like I'm crazy.

[–] Dr_Cog@mander.xyz 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I do the same with psychology. Except it's worse because people think they DO know psychology when they absolutely don't

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm so glad I don't have to deal with people pretending to know physics that often. Usually I just get "why the fuck did you major in physics" and then I go cry

[–] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm assuming you wish you'd gone for marine biology instead, sharkfucker420?

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

You could say that

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is telling a lot about your psyche.








;)

[–] Dr_Cog@mander.xyz 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

And how does that make you feel?

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Makes me smile, but ... Dr. Cog, can you try a bit deeper?