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

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 85 minutes

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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.

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and a psychologist, Dave Pizarro,
0:05.9	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.4	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.6	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.2	Is magic real? Fine. An old withered.
0:21.4	Hmm. The wizard is lost his faith in magic. That's ironic.
0:25.8	Aaronic and sad.
0:55.8	They think they're false and with no more brains than you have.
0:59.8	They do our attention. Come on, man.
1:05.9	Anybody can have a brain.
1:09.9	You're a very bad man.
1:12.4	I'm a very good man. Just a very bad wizard.
1:16.9	Welcome to very bad wizards. I'm Tamler Summers from the University of Houston.
1:21.1	Dave, I like big boobs and I cannot lie.
1:24.9	Does that mean I'm poor?
1:27.2	It might make you poor. It might actually,
1:31.0	depending on where you go in Vegas, that can lead to poverty.
1:36.3	But you've got the causal direction, I think.
1:39.5	I know. We have the science to tell us.
1:43.1	I'm David Pizarro from Cornell University.
1:47.4	I'm okay with any size breasts. I love them all.
1:51.0	I like big man boobs.
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