Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for February 12, 2016
February 11, 2016
February 18, 2016
Transcript:
Chagrin Falls "Breaking Silence" Gavin! Dinner. Gavin: one sec…. -if we evolved from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys? click Gavin: There Man1: Gavin Smythe? I want to shake your hand! Man2: we just saw your Facebook comment and rushed right over! Man1: Please come with us to Sweden for a special Nobel Prize ceremony! Man2: You've just disproven Evolution and the basis of all modern Biology! scientist: Im so stupid, stupid! Man1: It makes sense that a man with absolutely no background in Science would see right through 150 years of analysis and experimentation. Man 1: Some people would have done even the most cursory inquiry- perhaps a Google search - before dismissing an entire branch of science based on wholly ill informed question. - Thank God you didn't Man1: Funny! I thought monkeys, and I thought of humans evolving from monkeys, but I never connoted the two! Only your mind could hold both concepts simultaneously! Man1: Now Please, Mr Smythe . SHare your thoughts. odo you have any other dogma- shattering scientific insights?\\Gavin: um… Gavin: Ahem. What is every atom is a tiny solar system with teeny people living in it? GasP! wha? GET ME A MICROSCOPE!!
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An excellent illustration of the Dunning-Kruger effect..The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately.