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  1. TheLonelySquire

    TheLonelySquire Fresh Meat

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    Who's going to watch on Saturday night? Who's seen it already? Thoughts?

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  2. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    D'souza is trying to become an alt right analogue of Michael Moore?
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  3. matthunter

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    Except Michael Moore isn't a convicted felon.
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  4. We Are Borg

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  5. We Are Borg

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    The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. Some researchers also include in their definition the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. The Dunning–Kruger effect is usually measured by comparing self-assessment with objective performance. For example, the participants in a study may be asked to complete a quiz and then estimate how well they did. This subjective assessment is then compared with how well they actually did. This can happen either in relative or in absolute terms, i.e., in comparison with one's peer group as the percentage of peers outperformed or in comparison with objective standards as the number of questions answered correctly. The Dunning–Kruger effect appears in both cases but is more pronounced in relative terms: the bottom quartile of performers tend to see themselves as being part of the top two quartiles. The initial study was published by David Dunning and Justin Kruger in 1999. It focuses on logical reasoning, grammar, and social skills. Since then, various other studies have been conducted across a wide range of tasks. These include skills from fields such as business, politics, medicine, driving, aviation, spatial memory, exams in school, and literacy.
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  6. We Are Borg

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    The Dunning–Kruger effect is usually explained in terms of meta-cognitive abilities. This approach is based on the idea that poor performers have not yet acquired the ability to distinguish between good and bad performances. They tend to overrate themselves because they do not see the qualitative difference between their performances and the performances of others. This has also been termed the "dual-burden account" since the lack of skill is paired with the ignorance of this lack. Some researchers include the meta-cognitive component as part of the definition of the Dunning–Kruger effect and not just as an explanation distinct from it.
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  7. We Are Borg

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    Many debates surrounding the Dunning–Kruger effect and criticisms of it focus on the meta-cognitive explanation without denying the empirical findings. This is often done by providing alternative explanations that promise a better account of the observed tendencies. The most prominent among them is the statistical explanation, which holds that the Dunning–Kruger effect is mainly a statistical artifact due to the regression toward the mean combined with another cognitive bias known as the better-than-average effect. Other theorists hold that the way low and high performers are distributed makes it more difficult for low performers to assess their skill level, thereby explaining their erroneous self-assessments independent of their meta-cognitive abilities. Another account sees the lack of incentives to give accurate self-assessments as the source of error.
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  8. We Are Borg

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    The Dunning–Kruger effect has been described as relevant for various practical matters but there are disagreements about the magnitude of its influence. Inaccurate self-assessment can lead people to make bad decisions, such as choosing a career for which they are unfit or engaging in behavior dangerous for themselves or others due to being unaware of lacking the necessary skills. It may also inhibit the affected from addressing their shortcomings to improve themselves. In some cases, the associated overconfidence may have positive side effects, like increasing motivation and energy.
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  9. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    OMG! that was some funny shit. And you knocked the WAB bot silly.

    Do it again!

    I am dedicating my first abortion delivery to you. You make me laugh so hard it hurts. I see some smoke coming up from your crotch @TheLonelySquire. Did you fall asleep tanning your testicles?

    OMG someone get @We Are Borg some medical help.
  10. TheLonelySquire

    TheLonelySquire Fresh Meat

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    I remember you as a lost character. Now, you really seem to have morphed into something different, and it's not a female.
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    Some researchers emphasize the meta-cognitive component in their definition. On this view, the Dunning-Kruger effect is the thesis that those who are incompetent in a given area tend to be ignorant of their incompetence, i.e. they lack the meta-cognitive ability to become aware of their incompetence. This definition lends itself to a simple explanation of the effect: incompetence often includes being unable to tell the difference between competence and incompetence, which is why it is difficult for the incompetent to recognize their incompetence. This is sometimes termed the "dual-burden" account since two burdens come paired: the lack of skill and the ignorance of this lack. But most definitions focus on the tendency to overestimate one's ability and see the relation to meta-cognition as a possible explanation independent of one's definition. This distinction is relevant since the meta-cognitive explanation is controversial and various criticisms of the Dunning-Kruger effect target this explanation but not the effect itself when defined in the narrow sense.
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  12. We Are Borg

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    The Dunning-Kruger effect is usually defined specifically for the self-assessments of people with a low level of competence. But some definitions do not restrict it to the bias of people with low skill and instead see it as pertaining to false self-evaluations on different skill levels. So it is sometimes claimed that it includes the reverse effect for people with high skill. On this view, the Dunning-Kruger effect also concerns the tendency of highly skilled people to underestimate their abilities relative to the abilities of others. But it has been argued that the source of this error is not the self-assessment of one's skills but an overly positive assessment of the skills of others. This phenomenon has been categorized as a form of the false-consensus effect.
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    The most common approach to measuring the Dunning-Kruger effect is to compare self-assessment with objective performance. The self-assessment is sometimes called subjective ability in contrast to the objective ability corresponding to the actual performance. The self-assessment may be done before or after the performance. If done afterward, it is important that the participants receive no independent clues during the performance as to how well they did. So if the activity involves answering quiz questions, no feedback is given as to whether a given answer was correct. The measurement of the subjective and the objective ability can be in absolute or relative terms. When done in absolute terms, self-assessment and performance are measured according to absolute standards, e.g. concerning how many quiz questions were answered correctly. When done in relative terms, the results are compared with a peer group. In this case, each participant is asked to assess their performance in relation to the other participants, for example in the form of estimating the percentage of peers they outperformed. The Dunning-Kruger effect is present in both cases but tends to be significantly more pronounced when done in relative terms. So people are usually more accurate when predicting their raw score than when assessing how well they did relative to their peer group.
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  14. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    No, he's just a pathetic shithead.
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  15. Jenee

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    This is just about the weirdest fucking thing I've seen. It's words on an internet message board. As for who typed them, ... what possible reason would you care about the gender? It's not as if you would ever be in a sexual relationship with that person. So, what would it matter? The only reason one would care about another person's gender would be if you were considering a sexual relationship. Thought you had a "hot, latina, wife"? Are you trolling for sex on the down low here? is that why you're to ascertain her gender and disappointed she's not a he?
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    TLS sends me hot love letters calling me his little melania. He also sends me some nice large checks so I let him fantasize. At least I don't actually suck his dick and not get paid like some other people around here who play cum dumpster for what is best described as demon hemorrhoids.
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    Who is worth more money than you. And everyone else who posts here. So, what’s that make us?

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  18. We Are Borg

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    Also...

    I always felt that Lanz could be Michael Moore's doppelganger. Haven't saved any photos to compare, but those who have seen Lanz know what I'm talking about, amiright?
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    NAHTMMM Perpetually sondering

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    Demon Hemorrhoids is the name of my new death metal garage band.
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  20. matthunter

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    LOL, even FOX and Newsmax don't want to touch this shit with a bargepole:



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  21. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Dinesh D'Sousa wrote a whole book about how he's GLAD the British oppressed India. :soma:
    Wow...that's some Jewish Nazi level shit.
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    Priti Patel is the UK Home Secretary. She's the daughter of Ugandan and Indian immigrants, but currently pushing a policy that would deport immigrants to Rwanda (a country with a horrific human rights record) because fuck 'em, she got hers, right?

    Props to the yoof of the UK for pulling this the other day:

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  23. Paladin

    Paladin Overjoyed Man of Liberty

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    The British ended the practice of suttee, burning the widow alive on her dead husband's funeral pyre.

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    Yeah but he still sold out Rambo and the POWs so fuck him.
  25. Paladin

    Paladin Overjoyed Man of Liberty

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    He had a long career...

    Started as a space hippie...

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    Went on the road with the Good Ol' Boys...

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    Moved on to bureaucrat...

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    Finally met his demise while working as a cop in Tennessee...

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    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    is that before or after the treason act of 1790 finally abolished it as a sentence in the Empire, or simply a collateral effect?
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    Paladin Overjoyed Man of Liberty

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    Half a century later.

    Of course, that was for treason. When did Britain abolish burning a woman alive simply for becoming a widow?
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    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    not seeing a half century nor the reasons being particularly relevant, unless it's that in India it was a matter of a sectarian tradition rather than under colour of law?

    Trying to decide if you're attempting to suggest Hinduism is somehow bad, or that somehow the EIC was a benign entity, what with the opium and slavery and shit?
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    Paladin Overjoyed Man of Liberty

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    Tradition or law, what's the difference if it's commonplace? Is the law off the hook if it allows it?

    And, while the earlier punishment for treason in Britain was pretty horrific, there's a big difference between applying it to those rare women convicted of the highest crimes (who were often mercifully garroted beforehand) and applying it regularly to women whose husbands died.
    I'm suggesting that British colonialism did have long-lasting civilizing effects of the Indians, not that the British were some ideal.
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    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    when did all of Hinduism sanction the practice, let alone require it? do i need to tap the please don't pick the cherries sign?


    "civilizing effects"?

    again, would that be the opium trade or the enslavement?
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