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  • taiyang@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonePoe's law rule
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    2 days ago

    I was a little confused too (plus it doesn’t help that the joke itself isn’t very clear) but I’ll boil down my own thinking:

    • The Dunning Kruger effect is just that people bias towards thinking themselves more knowledgeable than they are when they lack expertise.
    • The brain is probably human, and maybe healthy, if Google image search is to be believed. I’ve had anatomy classes with very dead brains to look at and brains certainly look like that (?) but plenty of primate brains look that way, too.
    • I think OPs joke is that the second brain is the same, only measured differently because of said bias.
    • It’s likely everyone in the comments have limited expertise and thus may be demonstrating said effect by correcting one another.

    I’m still not getting the joke but I think it’s funny enough that us commenters of commenters are questioning things and might be the only ones not experiencing the Dunning Kruger effect. Lol












  • I found out today a moron I went to grad school with published a successful book. He’s also an “important” person’s son, though, so it’s less of a jealous thing more of the “this world’s fucked” thing.

    My PhD isn’t super useful though so yeah, throw it in the remorse file.



  • It’s been a while since I learned the history, but if I remecmber right the first schools in the US were religious in nature. But public schooling was generally a huge equalizer, and made the most advances along with workers rights movements, etc.

    That said, there’s plenty to be upset about class-wise, just not the class size thing. It’s true that rich families have always done what they could do to get their kids ahead, generally with private school and tutoring. They have a much higher odds of getting into the better colleges, and the more elite schools tend to lead to higher pay after graduation. They’re also doing everything they can to gut public education, which is the whole point of the push for vouchers (which was especially big during the Trump administration).

    There’s a thousand more reasons to be pissed off at the rich regarding education, but if I wanted to get into every single one I’d still be in academia (My PhD in Ed was all about that). Actually, now that I think of it, take a look at Learning to Labour by Willis, as I think it reflects your train of thought.