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A great crib sheet to “No collusion! No collusion!”
Bless the New York Times. Just at the moment when a lot of us are having a new type of emotional disturbance over our Horror — no government, no president, awful things being done — because we are getting desperate … Continue reading
Posted in Komprosplat, Mueller investigation, Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged Dunning-Kruger Effect, Ivanka Trump, Jared Kushner, Michelle Goldberg, Mueller indictments, New York Times, Russian links, Trump collusion, Trump conspiracy with Russians
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“The backfire effect”: another reason people still support Trump
I learn so much from reading the New York Times’ readers’ comments. Yesterday, in response to the usual thousands of plaintive, furious comments along the lines of “How does anyone still support this monstrosity?”, Mary, from Connecticut, wrote this: It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged amygdala, confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger Effect, enlarged amydala, the backfire effect
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Howard Schultz: Avatar of the Dunning-Kruger Effect
Last Sunday I visited my sister and brother-in-law in New Jersey. Rob (my bro-in-law) asked me if I’d been following all things Trump. “It’s just about all I do,” I told him. What else is life right now? Later, while … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer boycott, Politics, The Facts of Life, The filthy rich, Trumpism
Tagged avatar, Dunning-Kruger Effect, hazelnut coffee, Howard Schultz, Paul Krugman, Porto Rico Coffee, Starbucks, Trump
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