(11-13-2024, 11:08 AM)mikesez Wrote:

(11-13-2024, 10:53 AM)Jag149 Wrote: LOL ... I already know anyone and everyone as long as they agree to you. Kind of like Obama when he said his door is open and everyone is welcome to come in, sit down and agree with him. Your the only one that said you know more than I do.  Look back you will see it.

There's smarts, which is how quickly you can use new information to draw new conclusions, and knowledge, which is just a set of facts or processes that you have already memorized.  

If I present you new information about Trump and his opponents, you simply reject it.  You don't try to use it or compare it to anything you already have.  Not very smart.  Most people are smarter than that about most things.  You're probably smarter than that about most things.  But you love Trump and overestimate the quality of information you have about him due to this love.

Then you made the statement that Trump's attempt to get Ukraine to prosecute Biden is similar to something that a Democrat did to Trump at one time or another. This shows a lack of knowledge, in fact it shows knowledge of false information, which, smarter people realize is false and reject. 

Overarching both of these is humility, basically the idea that another person might know more than you about something you already know something about. If you had a little bit more humility you would consider what I'm saying carefully and see if it actually makes sense.  

Winger rejects what I say simply because he has spite for anyone who says things he doesn't like.  You and Sneakers aren't that way.  You don't have negative feelings towards me and you're generally polite.  You just overestimate the quality of both the information you're fed and your ability to understand it, and along with that underestimate mine.  These patterns were described by Dunning and Kruger in 1999.