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No Stupid Questions

38. What Does It Mean to Be a “Good” Man?

No Stupid Questions

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🗓️ 7 February 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Also: how can you stop ruminating?

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0:00.0

I had no point. I just wanted to criticize myself.

0:02.7

I'm Antilla Duckworth.

0:04.7

I'm Stephen Dubner.

0:05.7

And you're listening to no stupid questions.

0:08.0

Today on the show, we know misogyny is wrong, but what about misandry?

0:14.5

Hey, tell me more about how you hate me.

0:17.0

Also, how do you stop obsessing over things you can't change?

0:21.5

All who ruminate are ruminants, but not all ruminants.

0:25.0

Missarly ruminate.

0:26.0

Angela, my question for you today is a little circular and a little meta.

0:33.0

That's totally fine.

0:34.0

So you recently sent me an email after an episode in which we had discussed the Dunning

0:39.4

Krueger effect.

0:40.4

And you wrote, I was chatting with a colleague yesterday about his skepticism of the Dunning

0:47.3

Krueger effect.

0:48.8

I think my updated view is that it may occur and likely does, but does so alongside

0:56.4

regression to the man.

0:58.8

Okay.

0:59.8

Typo.

1:00.8

Now, plainly, that was just a typo.

1:02.5

You meant to type regression to the mean, but when I saw that, I thought, wow, regression

1:06.1

to the man.

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