Gullibility
Slate: Why Smart People Fall for Fake News
OoH Ooh OoH Mistuh Kottuh Mistuh Kottuh I know da ans-suh Mistuh Kotter! It's because many of the people they're talking about in this article are journalists, specifically liberal journalists from lefty hiveminds such as the WaPo. They aren't actually smart, they just to like go around telling everyone they're smart. I knew several journo majors in college and have passing acquaintance with a few of the vermin in my professional life.
In my line of work, which is sales and contract negotiation, being able to identify personality types, intelligence, business savvy and political leanings in a client is a necessary skill. I can usually peg a person within a few minutes of meeting them. I've yet to meet a journalist or journo student whom I would place above 110 on the standardized intelligence quotient scale. They're perfectly average people who received degrees in a non-challenging course of study and who have subsequently created personal bubble realities, within which they are insightful geniuses with frequent flashes of political and social brilliance. That scale of delusion is like a lighthouse for satirists and con artists.
To wrap up the article, they give us some lovely patronization from a liberal professor in Delaware who tells us that those mistakes are mostly made by low-cognition voters, which she proceeds to define (via unsupported examples) as conservatives. This despite the fact that the documented examples -- in the same article, no less -- were made by liberal journalists being suckered into believing political satire which supported their leftist worldviews. I believe magicians call that a "diversionary action."
You been tellin' me you're a genius
Since you were seventeen
In all the time I've known you
I still don't know what you mean
- Steely Dan, Reelin' in the Years
OoH Ooh OoH Mistuh Kottuh Mistuh Kottuh I know da ans-suh Mistuh Kotter! It's because many of the people they're talking about in this article are journalists, specifically liberal journalists from lefty hiveminds such as the WaPo. They aren't actually smart, they just to like go around telling everyone they're smart. I knew several journo majors in college and have passing acquaintance with a few of the vermin in my professional life.
In my line of work, which is sales and contract negotiation, being able to identify personality types, intelligence, business savvy and political leanings in a client is a necessary skill. I can usually peg a person within a few minutes of meeting them. I've yet to meet a journalist or journo student whom I would place above 110 on the standardized intelligence quotient scale. They're perfectly average people who received degrees in a non-challenging course of study and who have subsequently created personal bubble realities, within which they are insightful geniuses with frequent flashes of political and social brilliance. That scale of delusion is like a lighthouse for satirists and con artists.
To wrap up the article, they give us some lovely patronization from a liberal professor in Delaware who tells us that those mistakes are mostly made by low-cognition voters, which she proceeds to define (via unsupported examples) as conservatives. This despite the fact that the documented examples -- in the same article, no less -- were made by liberal journalists being suckered into believing political satire which supported their leftist worldviews. I believe magicians call that a "diversionary action."
You been tellin' me you're a genius
Since you were seventeen
In all the time I've known you
I still don't know what you mean
- Steely Dan, Reelin' in the Years
posted by Jar(egg)head at 10:34
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