"'One of the most interesting origins for much of this aberrant thought comes out of harsh and inconsistent and unpredictable early environments,' Caspi tells me. 'Those kinds of experiences that set up the anticipation of bad things happening, or they set up the anticipation of being rejected, they set up the anticipation of being violated, … Continue reading The P-Factor
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The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real
"For an effect of human psychology to be real, it cannot be rigorously replicated using random noise. If the human brain was predisposed to choose heads when a coin is flipped, you could compare this to random predictions (heads or tails) made by a computer and see the bias. A human would call more heads … Continue reading The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real
