Dunning-Kruger and the New Media Douchebag

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I haven’t taken New Media Douchebag Anil Dash to task here yet, but I ran across a blog post by Anil that I couldn’t pass up. Not nec­es­sar­ily because the arti­cle was par­tic­u­larly bad (although it is) but because it’s emblem­atic of some­thing that I see con­stantly amongst the New Media Douchebag col­lec­tive. In fact, this trait may well be one of the core defin­ing aspects of the quin­tes­sen­tial New Media Douchebag. Specifically, it’s the utter and com­plete inabil­ity of the New Media Douchebag to real­ize that they are pon­tif­i­cat­ing about a sub­ject that the are woe­fully ill-prepared to discuss.


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