27 February 2015

Oklahoma Senator Illustrates Dunning-Kruger Effect

Posted by Dan Satterfield

This is what the winter of 2014/15 looks like. Red is above normal and blue is below. This is actually based on the last 30 years from 1980-2010. If you go back and use normals from the middle of the century the above normal's increase dramatically and the below normal's decrease.

This is what the winter of 2014/15 looks like. Red is above normal and blue is below. This is actually based on the last 30 years from 1980-2010. If you go back and use normals from the middle of the century the above normal’s increase dramatically and the below normal’s decrease.

I wrote about the Dunning Kruger effect last week and a U.S.Senator took the floor of the Senate today to illustrate why you do not want to be a victim of this disease.

In case you’re wondering about how the winter of 2015 is shaping up in the U.S. and around the world. Read this post from last week as well.Then there is also this research being published in the Journal of Climate.Jason Samenow at Capital Weather Gang (Wash. Post) has a very good summary of this research. Dr. Marshall Shepherd, past President of the American Metr. Society said it best “Tomorrow, I shall stand before the masses and hold my Subway Italian BMT Sandwich high and declare that “I am eating lunch, therefore world hunger is a hoax”……”