In the book “Thinking, Fast and Slow,” Nobel laureate Dan Kahneman talks about the cognitive flaw called “illusion of validity” in which experts trust their own judgment even when shown they’re often wrong. Wealth advisors, for example, have been proven to do no better than random chance and yet we pay them lots of money to give us some of their random chance. Our trust of experts does not decrease even when facts prove they’re f*cking morons. I think this might be one of the ways man is different from most other animals. If you told a group of elephants that one elephant was an expert at finding water and then he failed several times, the group would be like, “F*ck you. He sucks. I don’t care where he went to school!” Whereas mankind will go back to the same financial advisors, the same economists, the same leaders time and again, failure after failure. We would even go back to a restaurant despite thinking the food tasted like burnt hair sprinkled over more burnt hair. All you’d have to do is tell us the chef trained under Wolfgang Puck or whoever the f*ck and we would tell our friends the pasta tasted like happiness smothered in whipped cream topped with angel p**sy. ...Or whatever you’re into.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 18:49:22 +0000