Ha döntéselméletről beszélünk, akkor Kahneman munkássága, és a Gyors és lassú gondolkodás című műve megkerülhetetlen, vagyis a könyv első kb 120 oldala ebből idéz, emel ki, hivatkozik rá, de van benne egy beszélgetés magával, Kahnemannal is. Stupidity is an unkept promise, a promise of intelligence and confidence that the idiots among us betray, traitors to humanity. These jerks are like dumb beasts-they're total animals! We might want to indulge them, to turn them into friends, but they're not on that level, which is to say, our level. They suffer from a disease that has no cure. And since they refuse to heal themselves, convinced that they are one-eyed kings in the land of the blind, the tragicomedy is made complete. It's no surprise that people are fascinated by zombies-with the simulacrum of existence they embody, their intellectual vacuity, and their overwhelming, fundamental need to drag the living, the heroic, and the simply decent down to their own level. And that makes sense: idiots, like zombies, want to eat your brains: these failed human beings never fail you. The worst thing about them is that they can sometimes be intelligent, or at least make a show of it. They're so skilled at transforming the lineaments of learning to the bars of a cage that they would gladly burn books-along with their authors-in the name of some ideology, or of something they learned from some purported sage (idiotic or not). Eerlijk gezegd was de titel wat mij aantrok om dit boek te willen lezen toen ik het boek tegenkwam in de brochure van de uitgeverij. Ik lees af en toe graag een boek uit het psychologie genre en laat dit boek daar nou ook nog eens in vallen. Karakter Uitgevers stelde een recensie-exemplaar beschikbaar en zo doende ben ik hier dus weer met mijn mening. Ik moest in de eerste instantie wel wennen aan de manier waarop alles geschreven is. Er komen verschillende personen aan het woord, alles onder redactie van Jean-François Marmion, waardoor de bewoording voor mijn gevoel nogal resoluut kon veranderen. De mensen die aan het woord komen in het boek oefenen allemaal andere beroepen uit zoals bijvoorbeeld psychologen, professoren, maar ook journalisten, leraren enzovoort. Dit laat zien dat er met het onderzoek een breed perspectief aangenomen is en het veelzijdig benaderd wordt.

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Q: In 2016, you devoted a book to the dangers posed by the election of Donald Trump. Do you consider him a supreme asshole, or is he worse than that? Studies in the realm of belief always distinguish between the naïve credulity of greenhorns and the entrenched stupidity of old fools. It’s been proven that negative memories fade with time, whereas positive memories endure. This is why the older a person gets, the greater his tendency to regard the past in a positive light, which is why old fools like to complain wistfully, ‘Everything was better in the good old days.'” we’re all equipped with a bullshit detector called negativity bias.18 This is a tendency that leads us to give more weight, attention, and interest to negative things than to positive ones. Negativity bias has significant consequences on people’s opinions, on their prejudices and stereotypes, on discrimination and superstition. As with housework, we notice the little things only when they haven’t been done. It’s because of the negativity bias that we find it easier to deal with an idiot than with a genius in a complex social setting. In addition, this bias leads us to read more meaning into a negative event than a positive one." The Art of Choosin, 2010), Шини Лінгар. Ця книжка показує парадокс нашого суспільства споживання: труднощі через надмір вибору""

Some mighty smart people, basically, who’ve been well educated. But have something to do with what they’ve learned, rather than lapsing into pomposity. I side with those who say that ignorance is not stupidity. Ignorance is a strong engine of knowledge, provided that you know you’re ignorant, and that you know what you don’t know. But we are unaware of most of the biases that affect our reception of information, and of the propensities that sway our reasoning. The problem, and it’s a serious one, is that even after these biases are exposed, they continue to work. All the more so in situations that are not conducive to doubt. Whereas stupidity, true stupidity, is the hallmark of a frightening intellectual complacency that leaves absolutely no room for doubt." There are some fools who find it impossible to sleep when they are passengers; apparently they can sleep only when they’re the driver! (c)

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The book is really just strange, quite madly incoherent, and sometimes quite uncomfortable to read because of its abusive tone. Furthermore, some of the contributions get things wrong on occasion, for example in how they reinforce common misunderstandings of psychological research (such as the Dunning-Kruger effect), and then, the book is internally inconsistent in that other contributions get those same things right. We are unaware of most of the biases that affect our reception of information, and of the propensities that sway our reasoning." Generation Z is sure shaping the future! I don’t want to predict how things will go, but with the passing of the older generations it feels like it’ll be a mixture of higher empathy… merged alongside selfies and the need for Likes. And because the book is neither intellectually challenging, nor entirely accurate with regard to theory, and not motivated by a desire to improve public reasoning or discourse, rather than to simply belittle those who don’t conform to a certain intellectual type. And so I proclaim, o idiots and every stripe and morons of all kinds, this is your moment of glory: this book speaks only to you. But you will not recognise yourselves...PDF / EPUB File Name: The_Psychology_of_Stupidity_-_Jean-Francois_Marmion.pdf, The_Psychology_of_Stupidity_-_Jean-Francois_Marmion.epub Marmion hat die „klügsten“ Menschen zum Thema „Stupidty“ befragt. Von Daniel Kahnemann bis Antonio Damasio sind sehr viele Wissenschaftler:innen dabei, die ihre Beobachtungen aus ihrem Expertengebiet wiedergeben. Und teilweise sind sehr erfrischende Aussagen dabei. Sind TV und Social Media wirklich Medien, die Kinder verblöden? a tér sem szabhat neki határt, de még egy jó intellektus sem, mert a hülyeségnek ezer arca van, az értelmi fogyatékostól kezdve a befolyásolásnak, eszméknek bedőlő embereken át az érzelmektől vezérelt hülyeséget útbaejtve egészen a seggfejségig, gonoszságig, nárcizmusig. A könyv igazából a témával kapcsolatos beszélgetések, esszék gyűjteménye, természetesen csupa kompetens embertől, akik eltérő tudományágakat képviselnek. Also included are: a taxonomy of morons, a lot of interviews with experts on stupidity (huh) and a lot whining about Trump. Ah yes, the Dunny-Clogger effect (as a friend of mine calls it). I run into it all the time in my field, mostly at the hands of self-appointed ‘experts’ (mostly on social media) who find some miniscule discrepancy between what they regard as ‘fact’ (a data-point accepted at face value without any concept of critical analysis) and my historiographical analysis, therefore everything I do is faulty: indeed, to them, my 35 years in my own profession, international recognition & awards etc, means I’m so stupid I can’t even figure out which way around to sit on a toilet. I regard this as totally unfair. I mean, you’re meant to hug the cistern aren’t you?