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dlk

(11,439 posts)
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 12:54 PM Feb 2019

At Yesterday's Hearing, Whitaker Showed Himself to be the Poster Boy for the Dunning Kruger Effect

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. Whitaker's performance was pathetic. He has always been supremely unqualified for his Attorney General position and would be more suited to this position in a third-rate dictatorship. No wonder the U. S. has become the laughingstock of the world!

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At Yesterday's Hearing, Whitaker Showed Himself to be the Poster Boy for the Dunning Kruger Effect (Original Post) dlk Feb 2019 OP
The fact that he thought he could run out a 5-minute clock on the chairman was stunning in its RockRaven Feb 2019 #1
I hope he hires better defense attorneys. UniteFightBack Feb 2019 #2
Also Timewas Feb 2019 #3
I Was Thinking of the Peter Principle, Too dlk Feb 2019 #4
Whitaker and trump are poster boys for Dunning-Kruger. (nt) Paladin Feb 2019 #5

RockRaven

(14,784 posts)
1. The fact that he thought he could run out a 5-minute clock on the chairman was stunning in its
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 01:14 PM
Feb 2019

ineptness, never mind arrogance.

Whoever spent all that time prepping him failed to get through his shiny scalp how a House committee even works. If your gambit relies upon leveraging the committee rules, you need to KNOW the committee rules!

Timewas

(2,174 posts)
3. Also
Sat Feb 9, 2019, 01:40 PM
Feb 2019

The peter principle:

"The principle that members of a hierarchy are promoted until they reach the level at which they are no longer competent."

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