The Dunning-Kruger Effect Explains Why Society Is So Screwed-Up

“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” -Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man

The Happy Neuron
Dialogue & Discourse
6 min readMay 12, 2020

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In April of 1995, McArthur Wheeler covered his face in lemon juice and robbed two Pittsburgh area banks. He reasoned that the lemon juice would make his face invisible to security…

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