[post_page_title]The search for idiots continues[/post_page_title]
Dunning and Kruger, meanwhile, were not content with looking at criminals – possibly because people convicted of crimes are, on average, less intelligent than those who are not – so they examined their own college students. Surely, they reasoned, if college students were just as guilty of the illusion of confidence, then everyone else is also susceptible. They examined sense of humor, knowledge of grammar and logical reasoning, and found… that no matter the topic, the less we know about it, the more confident we are, up to a point. But what’s that tipping point?
