{"id":5698,"date":"2010-06-09T03:00:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5698"},"modified":"2010-06-09T03:00:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T08:00:34","slug":"that-river-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5698","title":{"rendered":"That River in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youarenotsosmart.com\/\">You Are Not So Smart<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You Are Not So Smart is a blog devoted to self delusion and irrational thinking.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot of research out there suggesting you have no idea why you act or think the way you do.<\/p>\n<p>It feels awful to accept such things, so you create narratives to explain your own feelings and behavior.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On the <a href=\"http:\/\/youarenotsosmart.com\/2010\/05\/11\/the-dunning-kruger-effect\/\"> Dunning-Kruger Effect<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Have you ever wondered why people with advanced degrees in climate science or biology don\u2019t get online and debate global warming or evolution? Yet, people without a degree in psychology will write 1,200 words about a psychological bias.<\/p>\n<p>The less you know about a subject, the less you believe there is to know in total. Only once you have some experience do you start to recognize the breadth and depth you have yet to plunder.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Are Not So Smart You Are Not So Smart is a blog devoted to self delusion and irrational thinking. There\u2019s a lot of research out there suggesting you have no idea why you act or think the way you &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5698\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}