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Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

FromVery Bad Wizards


Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

FromVery Bad Wizards

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Length:
85 minutes
Released:
Apr 2, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The less we know, the more we know it. David and Tamler talk about the notorious Dunning-Kruger effect, which makes us overconfident in beliefs on topics we're ignorant about and under-confident when we're experts. Plus, we break down an evolutionary psychology article on why poor men and hungry men prefer women with big breasts. Trust us, it's a really bad study. We're sure about it.
Released:
Apr 2, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Very Bad Wizards is a podcast featuring a philosopher (Tamler Sommers) and a psychologist (David Pizarro), who share a love for ethics, pop culture, and cognitive science, and who have a marked inability to distinguish sacred from profane. Each podcast includes discussions of moral philosophy, recent work on moral psychology and neuroscience, and the overlap between the two.