1999, Deng Ning and Kruger first published a paper on how the lack of correct cognitive ability leads to high self-evaluation. Since then, the effect of their names has become a meme, which has triggered a universal voice: as Deng Ning said, overconfident people "have all met us". In 2000, they won the "Ig Nobel Prize" for their best satire. Actor john cleese briefly explained the Ducker effect in a widely forwarded video of You Tube: "If you are very, very stupid, how can you realize that you are very, very stupid? You have to be smart enough to realize how stupid you are ... this not only explains the low IQ of Hollywood movies, but also explains the problems of almost all viewers of Fox News Channel. " Duck effect has become a part of online buzzwords. Some people think they know what it means, but they don't know what it means. However, the paper of 1999 clearly illustrates the views of Deng Ning and Kruger, that is, the first place to look for Ducky ignorance is to look in the mirror.
Is it necessary to learn basic knowledge in the network age?
The name of the first successful search engine means "noisy fool". In the mid-1990s, Yahoo launched a tool that can facilitate everyone's contact with the real world. With just a few buttons and a few words, we can summon the elves and spread out any recorded facts before our eyes. Once upon a time, when arguing about trivial matters such as sports, sex, celebrities and politics, people often asked bartenders to be arbitrators. Now customers just need to take out their smartphones or watches to check out. Charming mobile devices bring the cloud to dining tables, gyms and the back seat of cars, and of course, meeting rooms, classrooms and bedrooms. We now have a very common phenomenon, asking "Du Niang" when everything is undecided.
Then why fill your head with facts? We might as well ask ourselves the following seven simple questions first.
1. What are the four great inventions of China?
2. In what year did China football team enter the World Cup finals?
What is the name of the mountain that separates Europe from Asia?
4. Name three novels by Mo Yan, China Nobel Prize in Literature laureate?
5. Who is the highest president in the United States so far?
6. What is the capital of Brazil now?
7. Name any Latin American painter, novelist, poet, playwright or movie star? Contemporary, or hundreds of years ago will do. . .
If you need the help of the internet to answer these seven questions correctly and independently, it proves that your brain has been seriously degraded, and you need to reflect on whether you are getting more and more stupid. Because today's brain no longer needs to store information that is easy to get from the internet, but chooses to forget it, which seriously affects our intelligence.
If I write an article: What about the four types of university majors with the worst return on investment? I believe that countless people will open it, but it will not help their knowledge reserves, and even mislead themselves into a different path. Quite simply, what is Buffett's major and his classmates? Compared with numbers, people are more sensitive to words and emotions, and politicians and journalists know this, which is also the source of the so-called title party. People don't care about the truth, but simply vent their emotions, so the whole society is leaning towards low IQ, which is also the biggest help for Trump to become president of the United States.
The problem of the whole world is that fools and fanatics are always so confident, while smart people are full of doubts.
Portland Russell