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So many idiots who think they are smarter than they really are.

posted 8 years ago by James_Camacho
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Yes, the show may be faked or staged, in fact, it SAYS so in the credits that much of it is re-enacted.

But the "debunkings" being conducted here by the arm-chair sleuths and investigators really makes one wonder about the educational system in our country.

Your "insights" are often utterly wrong, ass-backwards, logically incongruent or total misapprehensions of what is really happening on the show.

Example of the sort of hyperventilation going on here,

"NO ONE WOULD EVER USE A CALENDAR!! AND IF THEY DID THEY WOULDN'T PRESS DOWN ON IT WHEN THEY WROTE!!! OMG SO FAKE!"

Ok... I don't even know how to respond to inane blather like that.

The funny thing is that in my life, in another field, I had this same experience with the public -- arm-chair idiots convinced something was "fake" (which, in fact, it was) except every point they made, every insight they had as to why it was fake was completely wrong. They would point out things that were real and scream "Fake!" and miss the parts that were actually fake. It was hilarious and frightening to behold.

There's a term for this, maybe someone can look it up, but it has to do with people overestimating their intelligence. Americans take the cake.

[–] MiloSuperSpesh 8 years ago

Your post title would've been better served to point out the teams/ hunters flaws instead of trolling other users because you don't agree with them.

As for the calender thing, well the simple way to deal with that is to burn what ever you don't need any more or instead buy a diary and use that but keep it on you.

[–] offyourrockers 8 years ago

There's a term for this, maybe someone can look it up, but it has to do with people overestimating their intelligence. Americans take the cake.

It's inspired by the guy who put lemon juice on his face because he thought that would make his face invisible to security cameras.

Dunning–Kruger effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

.... The study was inspired by the case of McArthur Wheeler, a man who robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in the mistaken belief that, because lemon juice is usable as invisible ink, it would prevent his face from being recorded on surveillance cameras. The authors noted that earlier studies suggested that ignorance of standards of performance lies behind a great deal of incorrect self-assessment of competence.

This pattern of over-estimating competence was seen in studies of skills as diverse as reading comprehension, practicing medicine, operating a motor vehicle, and playing games such as chess or tennis. Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:
* fail to recognize their own lack of skill
* fail to recognize the extent of their inadequacy
* fail to accurately gauge skill in others
* recognize and acknowledge their own lack of skill only after they are exposed to training for that skill.

BTW James, I have the same last name as you. Are we related? 😀

[–] Volley2020 8 years ago

Emiley's calendar makes no sense to me. If I was planning out my 28 day adventure, the LAST thing I would do is write on top of another piece of paper, and push hard enough to write on the paper. It's silly that David isn't aware of the huge calendar being an issue either, does it never come to his mind "hmmm, I wonder if Emiley wrote on top of another calendar page or disposed of the calendar completely after she was done writing?"

He seems like a very smart guy, I'm hoping he wakes up yet because we learned a long time ago that writing on paper almost always goes through to the paper below it.