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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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.