Most of the time, you’d want your product advertised near a news item that relates to your product — but not always.
Thanks to AdPulp for the pointer.
Remember the Dunning-Kruger Effect!
I’ve just stumbled across something which helps explain a lot about the world: the Dunning-Kruger Effect. This is the phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge.
Manifestations include:
- incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill,
- incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others,
- incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy,
- if they can be trained to substantially improve their own skill level, these individuals can recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill.
This certainly applies to a news story I stumbled across today: Texas has appointed an anti-intellectual creationist as the head of their schools board. A school head who thinks education is a bad thing?
Is Kevin Andrews the scapegoat?
On early poll results, it looks like Kevin Andrews will be voted off Coalition Island. Go to the poll and have your say.
NASA prepares for new fake Moon landing
NASA preps robots for future fake moon landings, reports The Register. Thanks to BAB for the pointer.
New Poll: who’ll be voted off Coalition Island?
Now that we’ve determined conclusively that Senator Helen Coonan most resembles an American televangelist (57%), it’s time for a new poll. Visit the website to tell us who’ll be dumped from the Cabinet given the government’s plunging popularity.
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Pub plant at dusk
As I sat drinking red wine and discussing politics with the Snarky Platypus yesterday, the lighting on this plant at the Coopers Hotel, King Street, Newtown, caught my eye. Anyone know what it’s called?