21. Simplicity, Complexity, & Democracy | THUNK
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Channel: THUNK · 2014 · Education
It's very easy to extrapolate large systems of thought from a few facts...and often dangerously wrong, especially for people who live in democracies. Find out why you should be wary of the Dunning-Kruger effect and its implications for how you think about complicated issues. -Links for the Curious- The original Dunning-Kruger paper, entitled "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments" - https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~suh/metacognition.pdf A great piece on Plato's geometric solids & theory of matter, part of a series titled "Beautiful Losers" - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2011/12/beautiful-losers-platos-geometry-of-elements/ Hank Green's original vlogbrothers video about the truth resisting simplicity, where he quotes John's coining of the phrase - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH28G0_vTpg An article from Megan McArtle at the Atlantic about the dangers of trusting infographics (complete with infographic) - http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/12/ending-the-infographic-plague/250474/ A perfect xkcd comic illustrating this phenomenon - http://xkcd.com/793/
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