Can you be so stupid you don’t know how stupid you are? According to scientists the answer is yes. Some people’s incompetence can actually protect them from an awareness of their own incompetence.There is even a name for it – the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
Blank Mag’s favourite documentary maker Errol Morris writes in the New York Times about the science of stupidity and ignorance.
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