Why I Won’t Debate MAGA
Someone on the internet wants to debate you about climate change. They haven’t read a single peer-reviewed paper on atmospheric science. They don’t know what a confidence interval is. They can’t explain the difference between weather and climate. But they watched a YouTube video last week and now they want you to “prove them wrong.”
This request is not a conversation. It is a performance. And the performance has a name.
The Competence Illusion
In 1999, psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger at Cornell University published a study that measured what happens when people who know almost…
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