{"id":51465,"date":"2019-11-10T01:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T06:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=51465"},"modified":"2019-11-09T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T14:26:14","slug":"qotd-dunning-kruger-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2019\/11\/10\/qotd-dunning-kruger-club\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Dunning-Kruger Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>So, someone in a Facebook discussion brought up the usual &#8220;wOrKs fOr mE&#8221; nonsense to rationalize his love for an objectively awful pistol and when called on it, used every gun forum bubba trope you can think of to double down.<\/p>\n<p>A friend mentioned that it was ignorant bro stuff like this that was causing him to seek out other hobbies, to which I ruefully commented that every hobby has its equivalent; guns and shooting aren&#8217;t unique.<\/p>\n<p>And then someone else dropped the bomb:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p>&#8220;[Name Redacted], <em>if you don&#8217;t recognize this behavior in other hobbies, it&#8217;s because you&#8217;re the one doing it.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>But the First Rule of Dunning-Kruger Club is &#8220;<em>You don&#8217;t know that you&#8217;re in Dunning-Kruger Club<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tamara &#8220;Tam Slick&#8221; Keel, <a href=\"https:\/\/booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/the-first-rule-of-dunning-kruger-club.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The First Rule of Dunning-Kruger Club&#8230;&#8221;, <em>View from the porch<\/em><\/a>, 2019-09-30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, someone in a Facebook discussion brought up the usual &#8220;wOrKs fOr mE&#8221; nonsense to rationalize his love for an objectively awful pistol and when called on it, used every gun forum bubba trope you can think of to double down. A friend mentioned that it was ignorant bro stuff like this that was causing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,41],"tags":[1065,49,29,139],"class_list":["post-51465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-dunningkrugereffect","tag-guns","tag-photography","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-do5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51465"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52577,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51465\/revisions\/52577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}