Glossary
Used to explain why weak performers may be unable to assess their own weakness and therefore remain overconfident.
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Dunning-Kruger effect
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...American psychologists named Dunning and Kruger. There's something called the Dunning -Kruger effect. And so what they did was this. They ran an experiment...."
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Glossary
Jiang's adapted label for the tendency of insulated bureaucracies to grow more foolish as their confidence and power increase.
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"...American psychologists named Dunning and Kruger. There's something called the Dunning -Kruger effect. And so what they did was this. They ran an experiment...."
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"...the most confident in the world. That's what's called the Dunning -Kruger effect. And this helps explain why the world is why it is...."
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"There's something called the Dunning -Kruger effect, which is like the more confident you are, the more power you have, the stupider you become...."
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A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on success, class, parenting, schools, and revolution: self-control turns out to be trust, parenting turns out to be strategy, social mobility turns out to be governance, and revolution...
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Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.
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