https://www.openculture.com/2014/12/john-cleese-on-stupidity-and-a-cornell-study.html
There’s a lot of power in the Dunning Kruger effect.
It’s thrown about often as a jokey attack on people who talk with great confidence on a topic they know nothing about.
But it is also a call for self reflection
My interpretation of the key message there is that we are all incapable of being experts on everything - so it’s a good idea to rely on expert opinions when faced with an area we are not experts in. (phew that’s wordy, but I think it reads right)
Obviously it can be hard at times to find the right experts - but with most big topics there is a group consensus of experts available from reputable government sponsored politically independent organizations. Not trusting them is assuming a radical conspiracy by the government to deceive- that by definition makes you a radical conspiracy theorist.
That is not the group of people one reads good things about in the news.
