I Feel This A Lot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

Or in video form:

http://www.wimp.com/superiorityillusion/

A vast majority of people believe they are better drivers than the average person. By definition the average driver is average.

I believe I am a better-than-average driver. Does that mean I am, or does it mean I’m average and fooling myself? I honestly don’t know.

Also, I know a lot about things I care enough to learn about. I am the best at knowing things that matter to me, but who is to say what REALLY matters? What I know coincides a lot with what is tested in school, mostly because I go to school, but does that make me smarter than the dropout who can fix my car or clean my floor?

Sometimes I think about life as a little video game system of character creation. Everyone has the same number of points, but some people put them into strength and some people put them into charisma and intelligence. But I know that’s not literally true. There are people who objectively know less than others. The retarded retain less than the geniuses.

But what if the “points” system is just time? Everyone who has lived a certain amount of time has a certain amount of things they have done. People who spend the time traveling to Europe aren’t using that time to learn to fix cars, and people who read books aren’t using that same time to go skydive. So everyone is essentially the same except for the time you do something from which you gain nothing.

Maybe that’s why I hate watching movies more than once.

But still, there is retention. Some people have a better ability to remember things. Or maybe it just seems that way.

Maybe there is no objective way to judge people, because life is so variable. Maybe this is just useless pondering.

I got into a discussion with Debbie about “usefulness” of information and majors and stuff. PoliSci seems like a bunch of crap, but really if you look into it any major is useless or the center of all knowledge. More on that some other time.

Everything’s relative. This sucks.

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