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[supergee]

Humans prefer confidence to expertise

This is the sort of thing that makes me feel about our nature as evolved beings the way I feel about nature in general: Don't deny it; don't worship it; figure out how to work around it.

Thanx to andrewducker.

Comments

[andrewducker]

Absolutely. Our human natures are a tool, not something to be bowed to.

[lavendertook]

Abridged version: People are stupid. Supporting evidence: We get paid to do these studies--wheeeee!

Method Acting

[onyxlynx]

So we just have to learn to fake confidence well? And then expertise will come to us.

Doesn't Gogol have a play about this?