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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAt Yesterday's Hearing, Whitaker Showed Himself to be the Poster Boy for the Dunning Kruger Effect
The DunningKruger 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. Whitaker's performance was pathetic. He has always been supremely unqualified for his Attorney General position and would be more suited to this position in a third-rate dictatorship. No wonder the U. S. has become the laughingstock of the world!
RockRaven
(14,998 posts)ineptness, never mind arrogance.
Whoever spent all that time prepping him failed to get through his shiny scalp how a House committee even works. If your gambit relies upon leveraging the committee rules, you need to KNOW the committee rules!
UniteFightBack
(8,231 posts)The peter principle:
"The principle that members of a hierarchy are promoted until they reach the level at which they are no longer competent."
dlk
(11,576 posts)The GOP practices it on a regular basis.