I know a lot of smart people who are utterly wrong about all kinds of things, and there is no arguing with them with evidence or anything else because they know they are (and they are) technically actually really smart. There's got to be a term or effect or something for this?
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Hubris comes to mind
‘Pride’ isn’t as fitting as ‘hubris,’ but it can be lumped in.
Certainly. I'd count pride within hubris itself
That was one I thought of too, but it's not quite it.
I wish I had a lot better vocabulary, if there's not an effect for this there's got to be a more exact word? Argh.
I would call it intellectual arrogance.
Yeah this is pretty close....
Liberals
closed minded
assholes.
Damn, you beat me to it!😉
Lack of honest self appraisal.
I know totally left wing liberals who only trust what is written by the AP that reference this effect being why all conservatives are so stupid....
Literally will quote Biden or Kamala and if the AP didn't write it then it's not true.
Sometimes you just got to try to help where you can, keep an open heart, and let folks work out reality on their own time.
Unwise?
Intelligence without wisdom is folly.
Or, howz about "sociopath"?
Same thing. It’s a problem with self perception and others abilities. It can be over confident or under, I think.
This is not exactly correct.
Dunning-Kruger Effect is people who are not experienced or experts on a subject/field thinking that they are experts in the subject or over-estimating their competency in a field.
In general the person may be dumb, but DKE is looking at an individual and his competence in his/her knowledge in a field. Paul Krugman is an awesome example of this: Wins the "Nobel Prize in Economics" (this award technically doesn't exist), for his game theory model.
So he thinks he is the best economist ever...when every one of his economic theories/article gets fucking obliterated when applied to the real world showing a complete lack of competency.
Fack Chek: Partially True
"The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are."
https://www.verywellmind.com/an-overview-of-the-dunning-kruger-effect-4160740
“This is not exactly correct.”
hahaha….hilarious.
In my experience the smartest people I know are the ones who are most aware of how much they do not know. Generally a trait of truly smart people. Those who know a lot, but think they know everything, are simply arrogant, non-self-aware wankers.
https://www.theclever.com/20-common-characteristics-of-highly-intelligent-people/
Generally true and I agree, but these particular people are definitely high-IQ, technically intelligent people. Maybe not "smart" ha.
Willfully Ignorant
Academic, aka Professor.
Same thing, but with more irony.
When one person may be smart in one area and they feel that they can have an expert opinion on a field they are not familiar with.
Expert Syndrome
“Educated idiot”?
Don't confuse indoctrination / education with intelligence. The answer to the question is simply "smart".
A rationalist. This group of people to whom you refer, the ‘intelligent, yet somehow dumb’ are the rationalists. They’re good with logic in general, but have no connection of that logic with reality. Their logic is wasted on statements of fact they’ve received from authorities. They’ve never actually looked at reality. Their head is a tornado of statements and abstractions without any connection to reality. And you will not convince them of anything because they know they’re right, because the axioms they received from authorities are indisputable.
Arrogant comes close.
That's what narcissists believe about themselves.
I thought of this but there's a whole lot more that being a narcissist entails.
True, but I've known a couple narcissists personally, and it always looked to me like this is where it starts, i.e. that everything else springboards off of this.
Heh, could be. The main narcissist I know is actually not as smart (he is excellent at informing you how great he at empathy/understanding others, however!) and I finally had to go from keeping him at arm's length to not wanting to deal with the dude's crap anymore (shame, as we were buds for some time till this developed and got kind of baked in).
The two narcissists I know are actually very smart intellectually, but that causes them to think they're smarter than everyone else about everything, and about a lot of things neither is as smart as they think they are. One of them is one of my sisters, and I've excluded her from my life because I don't want to deal with the drama and conflict she generates.
Psychologically rigid?
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-squeaky-wheel/201811/why-certain-people-will-never-admit-they-were-wrong
Partially? But I'm talking people who feel no need to consider evidence or facts or anything, they "just know" stuff because they are smart and have drawn their conclusions etc.