I swear. I did the study myself in my basement. In a controlled study all those shoving their own self-righteous ideals down other people's throats without any regard to fact were shown to be at least twice as ignorant as a person who isn't overly controlling and self-righteous.

This basement study is conclusive. Thank you. :evilgrin:

nt

There is a great little article, "Incompetence is Bliss," detailing that the people who know everything really don't know squat, including enough information to know how ignorant they are, while those of us who read voraciously and ask a lot of questions and do the research and the math usually think we're a whole lot dumber than we are.

I include for your reading pleasure, http://www.lingsoft.fi/~reriksso/competence.html

Study to determine that. I coulda told ya that off the top of my head....

then why aren't there more happy people?

http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html

And from Marc Abrahams--editor of the bimonthly magazine Annals of Improbable Research http://www.improbable.com and organiser of the Ig Nobel Prize



The David Brent syndrome

If you're incompetent, you'll probably never know. Marc Abrahams has the evidence

Tuesday May 4, 2004
The Guardian

Everyone is incompetent, in one way or another. Psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger supplied scientific evidence that incompetence is bliss, at least for the incompetent person.

Dunning and Kruger wanted to explore human incompetence. They staged a series of experiments at Cornell University. Beforehand, they made some predictions, most notably that:

1 Incompetent people dramatically overestimate their ability; and

2 Incompetent people are not good at recognising incompetence - their own or anyone else's.

In one experiment, Dunning and Kruger asked 65 test subjects to rate the funniness of certain jokes. They then compared each test subject's ratings with ratings done by eight professional comedians. Some people had a very poor sense of what others find funny - but most of those same individuals believed themselves to be very good at it, rather like the character David Brent in The Office.

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Overall, the results showed that incompetence is even worse than it appears to be, and forms a sort of unholy trinity of cluelessness. The incompetent don't perform up to speed; don't recognise their lack of competence; and don't even recognise the competence of other people.

More:
http://education.guardian.co.uk/egweekly/story/0,5500,1208584,00.html

Brownie's doing a heck of a job!

bawwwwwwwwwwww you are so funny. :rofl: I think it was Frankenstein started out in the basement to.

shoving something down other people's throats. :-)

Would that be ok? :)

:toast:

your throat, cause i am out and about and have gone literally years without anyones second hand smoke around me.