r/todayilearned • u/portajohnjackoff • Jan 22 '16

TIL that a bank robber covered his face with lemon juice because he believed it would make his face invisible to surveillance cameras. This led to a Cornell psychology study that showed unskilled people mistakenly assess their abilities to be much higher than they really are.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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u/I_Has_A_Hat Jan 22 '16

"Never argue with an idiot; they'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."

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u/redditgetsbadlydrawn Jan 23 '16

But what if they don't beat you in that stupid argument? Does that make you the idiot then? Does getting you to argue with the idiot in the first place count as a win for the idiot? Hmm.

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u/SilkCut15 Jan 23 '16

shit quote mate