Thought of a phrase: alt confidence. The generally higher sense of self certainty that comes with adopting fringe views. I think it’s a selection effect. People who can’t tolerate high uncertainty centrifuge farther out to edge.
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Replying to @vgr
This is the Dunning Kruger effect applied to political views under the assumption that smarter people's heads are full of ambiguity/uncertainty and are likely to be more centrist?
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Replying to @ngkabra
Yes that’s the rough hypothesis. I think I had an earlier tweet a few weeks ago explicitly linking this to D-K
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