Mount Stupid
In: Humor
29 Oct 2012A lot of people are content to sit on top of the hump.
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4 Responses to Mount Stupid
Noah Iliinsky
October 29th, 2012 at 3:04 pm
That’s pretty much Dunning-Kruger right there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
David Bradley
November 2nd, 2012 at 10:55 am
As I await print publication of my book, Deceived Wisdom, I worry that I may have climbed said “Mount” and rolled down the other side…hopefully not…
Dave Thornley
November 3rd, 2012 at 4:45 pm
It looks like this graph came from here:
http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2475
Rui C. C. Pacheco
November 9th, 2012 at 3:23 pm
That’s exactly what’s happening in Portugal right now! And the chart is just the inversion of the debt chart.