[ExI] kruger dunning again

[William Flynn Wallace]

I wonder how the French felt about 1800, when they had trashed mansions.
beheaded the aristocracy and so on.  Were they happy then?  I suspect not.
There were by a large margin not enough gilt mirrors to go around to the
poor.  bill w

On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 1:20 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> A huge amount of American grassroots political rhetoric makes enormously
> more sense when you realize that a significant number of lower-income
> Americans actually genuinely believe that the billionaire class,
> collectively, has enough money to give American citizen tens of thousands
> of dollars, and possibly not even miss it.
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> This was made obvious a few months ago when a newscaster overestimated
> Bloomberg's campaign spending (or underestimated the American population,
> or both) by 2 or 3 orders of magnitude, and it went unnoticed by the
> overwhelming majority of the media class, and their audience.
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> If you genuinely believe that, then yes, it follows without a lot of
> mental gymnastics that the giga-rich /actually are/ reptilians in human
> skin [or may as well be] playing games with the lives of billions for
> profit and perverted fun.
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> Innumeracy may be the root, if not of all evil, at least of all discontent.
>
> On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:56 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> > *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
>> *Subject:* [ExI] kruger dunning again
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>> >… Surveys show that about 30% of Americans believe that a vaccine
>> exists but it is being withheld, and that a cure for the virus exists but
>> is being withheld…
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>> Ja that whole narrative is being fed by the case load in China falling to
>> zero.  I have my notion on what is causing that: they lie.  If one accepts
>> their word on it, then we get to pick an explanation, none of which are
>> very plausible.  Their strict lockdown is working far better than any other
>> countries doing similar measures (quite dubious), they have some kind of
>> genetic-based immunity (we know they don’t) the virus loves communists
>> (doubt that one) any one of a number of similarly suspect theories, or they
>> must have discovered a vaccine or a cure.
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>> Given all those, I suspect they are lying with their numbers.  Reasoning:
>> even if they did discover a cure, they would still have cured cases, or if
>> a vaccine, they couldn’t immunize 1.4 billion people that fast.
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>> Given those choices, I see why 30% of Americans believe that a vaccine
>> exists, but we don’t have it here.
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>> >…Now if true these would be earth-shaking facts and Hell to pay…
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>> Indeed?  What hell is China going to pay, after we already know they kept
>> the outbreak secret until it could spread to the whole planet?
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>> >…It make me wonder what would have happened if owning property was a
>> prerequisite of voting.
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>> bill w
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>> Owning property doesn’t make one smart.  Evidence would be to ask
>> respondents if they own property, then see what percentage thinks a secret
>> C-19 cure exists.
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>> If owning property ever became a prerequisite for voting, oh mercy that
>> would be a grand opportunity to make a buttload of money.
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>> I co-own some “property” in West Virginia with no road to it.  My
>> property taxes are under 3 dollars a year on that.  It has no zoning and no
>> restrictions from sub-dividing it, as far as we know.  We could study the
>> definition of the term “property” then figure out how many separate piece
>> of “property” could be created and sold per square foot.
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>> spike
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