It means that you are unwilling to put yourself into another's shoes; moreover, you find it redundant to do so in the first place.What do you mean? That the earth is sometimes flat, is always flat, is not flat, is flat if you "think" it is and not if you don't? It seems that according to you, whether the earth is flat depends on who is talking. Yes? No? — tim wood
And who is the arbiter of rationality in all this?By stupid I do not mean intellectually challenged but instead a person who without reason retreats from reason to some unreasonable position and maintains that position by recourse to irrationality against reason. . — tim wood
Such as to aim first and shoot later.After some thought, a modification. Some ignorance leads directly to stupidity because in a complex world there's an obligation to know at least some things. — tim wood
Theravada Buddhists don't believe in emptiness. — praxis
Why do you conceptualize this as "stupid", and not as confident? — baker
Why default to the belief that these young women are not being rational when they refuse to get vaccinated against covid? — baker
Let's play a game: what's my IQ?You have to comb back through all of my 4.7 thousand posts to figure it out. The winner doesn't get banned. The loser is banned. — Noble Dust
Less confident people may take more time to think through a problem leading to higher chances of accuracy than a confident person might. — Yohan
It depends if the confidence of the confident person is based their actually being right or if it is based on a desire to be right?Unless the confident person is right about things and the less confident wrong. — Thunderballs
D-K effect? — 180 Proof
The view I take is even less particularly personal than the one considered in the essay. In the sphere of production, the need to constrain the destructive capacity creates a dynamic where contempt for the stupid makes it more powerful on many levels. This factor is multiplied by having so many systems being dependent on wise responses in this regard. However that may be, I think the dynamic itself is as old as we are as a species. — Valentinus
The task-relationship model is defined by Forsyth as "a descriptive model of leadership which maintains that most leadership behaviors can be classified as performance maintenance or relationship maintenances."[1] Task-oriented (or task-focused) leadership is a behavioral approach in which the leader focuses on the tasks that need to be performed in order to meet certain goals, or to achieve a certain performance standard. Relationship-oriented (or relationship-focused) leadership is a behavioral approach in which the leader focuses on the satisfaction, motivation and the general well-being of the team members.
Task-oriented and relationship-oriented leadership are two models that are often compared, as they are known to produce varying outcomes under different circumstances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task-oriented_and_relationship-oriented_leadership
In task-oriented cultures, the primary means of achieving one's goals is through skillfully managing tasks and time
In relationship-oriented cultures the group to which a person belongs is a crucial part of that person's identity and goals are accomplished via relationships
Which takes priority, individual accomplishment and responsibility, or maintaining human relationships?
https://www.watershedassociates.com/learning-center-item/task-orientation-vs-relationship-orientation.html
None of which matters as long as you are the employee, a subordinate, dependent on the mercy of your boss.And if he has to "tell me my place", then he's not the boss. A boss is a boss precisely because he doesn't have to say, directly or otherwise, "I'm the boss"; instead he's just an idiot expressing his insecurity. — 180 Proof
It's also an effective way to reign in and silence dissent and distraction, so that the group can focus on achieving its goal. From which the individual benefits as well.I agree though, "power hierarchy" (status) usually subordinates "truth" – that's social stupidity (a herd / prey species' cognitive defect).
And people may behave on reasons which are not sound but make sense in the context of survival.
— Tom Storm
What a strange thing to say.
Surely the reasons that make sense in the context of survival are the most relevant ones! — baker
Some examples, please.People might act on reasons which they believe are in the best interests for their survival. But their beliefs may be based on reasons that are false. — Tom Storm
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