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Owlet

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Sat Mar 3, 2012, 08:06 AM Mar 2012

IDIOCRACY: SARAH PALIN’S POPULARITY, TEA PARTY, EXPLAINED BY SCIENCE


"David Dunning, a research psychologist at Cornell University, and his colleagues, have found how “incompetent” people are inherently unable to determine if another person is incompetent or not, or put more bluntly, some people are simply too dumb to know just how dumb they really are, and so they are, in turn, poor judges of stupidity (or intelligence) in others when they see it."

http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/idiocracy_sarah_palins_popularity_tea_party_explained_by_science
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IDIOCRACY: SARAH PALIN’S POPULARITY, TEA PARTY, EXPLAINED BY SCIENCE (Original Post) Owlet Mar 2012 OP
John Cleese quoted this study Ichingcarpenter Mar 2012 #1
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