Episode 161: Reach-Around Knowledge and Bottom Performers (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)
Very Bad Wizards
Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2019
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
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.
Links:
- Resource Security Impacts Men's Female Breast Size Preferences
- Peez on Freakonomics Radio Live: "Would You Eat a Piece of Chocolate Shaped Like Dog Poop?"
- Dunning–Kruger effect - Wikipedia
- We Are All Confident Idiots - Pacific Standard
- Dunning, D. (2011). The Dunning–Kruger effect: On being ignorant of one's own ignorance. In Advances in experimental social psychology (Vol. 44, pp. 247-296). Academic Press.
Transcript
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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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