The Kings Of Dunning-Kruger — Part 1

At the time of this writing, December 2017, Sam Harris (50) is a PhD neuroscientist with a whopping 3 peer-reviewed papers, a philosopher and the best-selling author of 7 books which focus on religion, morality and meditation.

Tom Nichols (57) is a professor at Harvard, a Sovietologist, a former Senate aide, author of “The Death Of Expertise”, 5 times undefeated Jeopardy champion (!!!) and, according to his Twitter bio, one of Politico’s Mag “Politico 50” for 2017 — whatever that means.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein people without expertise or experience in a particular field suffer from illusory superiority.

You can find a 10 minutes dissertation of the Dunning-Kruger effect at the beginning of this podcast:

What you’ll also find in this podcast are a slew of Dunning-Krugery, many other cognitive bias, lies, mind-reading episodes and a lot of straight-up hallucinations.

Let’s begin.

Min 17.28 Tom Nichols: “…Lay people don’t understand that, yes, experts have to be challenged all the time because they get things wrong but they have to be challenged by other experts who understand that field and understand the evidence in that field…” —…