Reply With Quote
Nah, they mostly just hate the black man in charge of the nation.
Many commentators have argued that Donald Trump’s dominance in the GOP presidential race can be largely explained by ignorance; his candidacy, after all, is most popular among Republican voters without college degrees. Their expertise about current affairs is too fractured and full of holes to spot that only 9 percent of Trump’s statements are “true” or “mostly” true, according to PolitiFact, whereas 57 percent are “false” or “mostly false”—the remainder being “pants on fire” untruths. Trump himself has memorably declared: “I love the poorly educated.”
But as a psychologist who has studied human behavior—including voter behavior—for decades, I think there is something deeper going on. The problem isn’t that voters are too uninformed. It is that they don’t know just how uninformed they are.
Psychological research suggests that people, in general, suffer from what has become known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect. They have little insight about the cracks and holes in their expertise. In studies in my research lab, people with severe gaps in knowledge and expertise typically fail to recognize how little they know and how badly they perform. To sum it up, the knowledge and intelligence that are required to be good at a task are often the same qualities needed to recognize that one is not good at that task—and if one lacks such knowledge and intelligence, one remains ignorant that one is not good at that task. This includes political judgment.
We have found this pattern in logical reasoning, grammar, emotional intelligence, financial literacy, numeracy, firearm care and safety, debate skill, and college coursework. Others have found a similar lack of insight among poor chess players, unskilled medical lab technicians, medical students unsuccessfully completing an obstetrics/gynecology rotation, and people failing a test on performing CPR.
This syndrome may well be the key to the Trump voter—and perhaps even to the man himself. Trump has served up numerous illustrative examples of the effect as he continues his confident audition to be leader of the free world even as he seems to lack crucial information about the job. In a December debate he appeared ignorant of what the nuclear triad is. Elsewhere, he has mused that Japan and South Korea should develop their own nuclear weapons—casually reversing decades of U.S. foreign policy.
Many commentators have pointed to these confident missteps as products of Trump’s alleged narcissism and egotism. My take would be that it's the other way around. Not seeing the mistakes for what they are allows any potential narcissism and egotism to expand unchecked.
In voters, lack of expertise would be lamentable but perhaps not so worrisome if people had some sense of how imperfect their civic knowledge is. If they did, they could repair it. But the Dunning-Kruger Effect suggests something different. It suggests that some voters, especially those facing significant distress in their life, might like some of what they hear from Trump, but they do not know enough to hold him accountable for the serious gaffes he makes. They fail to recognize those gaffes as missteps.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...#ixzz4NyGRrRYz
Follow us: @politico on Twitter | Politico on Facebook
Nah, they mostly just hate the black man in charge of the nation.
I actually thought this was a pretty good and fair take on Trump support. You have to ignore the fact that it's from Cracked and the first part of the article looks like a Buzzfeed listicle.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reason...e-talks-about/
The part of the article that talks about rural men only respecting men who could do plumbing, auto mechanics, carpentry, roofing, etc ie everything speaks to what the OP is talking about. The rural male is the poster child of the DK effect.
I understand and respect the desperation. What I don't respect is the irrational stupidity that it leads to. The Jeffersonian idyllic ideal is dead and Trump's protectionist trade deals and trickle down economics isn't going to bring it back. The old rural paradigm of subjugation of entire demographics like black folks and women to prop up white men is not going to come back.
empty "analysis" tbh... defines dunning-krugger effect and says "its probably what trump voters are."
I guess the Right has vindicated its decades-long effort to have its rank-and-file find intellectualism to be a bad thing.
He gives examples.
Fuzzy on a thread starting binge, social life exploding no doubt.
I have posted one thread today, dim.
Still trying to prop yourself up with relativism I see. I'm sure people think you are just a peach.
Fuzzy's rapid response is further indication that the social life is at Jay-Z levels.
Introspection is tough.
I wonder if there is a psychological quirk that explains why certain people feel compelled to catpet bomb the forum with new threads?
^ Yes it's called Social Life Absentia.
So you cope with it by creating new threads.
Learn to compartmentalize.. then lose those compartments.
Here you are lording over this thread telling people they have no social life because they are here.
Irony.
You have no issue with spamming else you would lord over ducks. no you are just some alt-right dimwit full of angst is my guess.
What cool social events am I missing out on at 2pm on a Monday? I just always assumed we were at our desks pretending to work.
But hey DMC you have Darrin on your side. If youre lucky you can get WC too and you can be really special.
Recent comment causes stir in surrogate, multiple posts result.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
