Veritas

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Originally Posted by dull boy

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority comes from the inability of low-ability people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.[1]

As described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the cognitive bias of illusory superiority results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[1]

If he is a troll, nothing he says is genuine and therefore your argument has no base. If he is legit, he has the high ground in such a situation to be used in defense of one of you being subject to this effect. Him being a certified and accredited intellectual in any conversation of the mind would make you the delusional low level here. Not saying that is concrete and the case, but it is an angle you don’t have a defense against. So why use that example? (Spoiler: because you didn’t fully understand it’s context when you used it)