Intelligent or ignorant people...

Psychology has shown that there is a tendency for human beings not to see their own mistakes, even more than they think. This argument explains why some incompetent people believe that their theories are irrevocable, although it is also known that the most ignorant believe they are also the smartest.

As an example of the former, some experts have reported that those who often hunt and are not as adept at handling weapons are the least aware of it. Likewise, doctors whose treatment of patients during their practice is lousy are often unable to recognize it. This is the so-called “intelligence trap”, which is considered as a pattern of behaviors and attitudes that leads the human being with intelligence and a high education to foolish attitudes, despite their ability. Many of us surely know very intelligent people who tend to think that they know everything about a subject without being able to recognize that they may have gaps in knowledge and believe they are unquestionable, using intellectuality to justify their criteria, even when they can be shown to be wrong.

Studies have also shown that there is a so-called blind spot bias, for example, in many of the students who have higher grades, as a result of which they have been unable to appreciate their own shortcomings.

Something similar and unfavorable occurs in groups, when this so-called "trap" has its repercussions. In this case, there have been various companies that have discouraged critical thinking, punishing workers who ask questions, this being a great source of errors, and which has been called functional stupidity. Thus, there have been q dogmatic leaders incapable of admitting other criteria. Currently, humility is seen as a sign of weakness. Even politicians are frowned upon if they falter or change their minds.

On the other hand, there is the so-called “Dunning-Kruger effect, on which it is considered that people with little knowledge or ability suffer from an illusory effect of superiority. This argument is discovered from the development of experiments by David Dunning and Justin Kruger in the late 1990s. The effects of this phenomenon: we sometimes blind ourselves and are not able to admit other criteria that could well be useful. Therefore, it is best to bet on HUMILITY.