Dunning Kruger Effect
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid people are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubts” - Bertrand Russell To put it crudely, the not so smart people are not so smart enough to know that they are not so smart. Alright, I’m not trying to be an elitist over here. This post is probably an extension of curse of knowledge. So while there is a trouble of knowing too much, on the other hand, knowing too little may make us inflate our own capability. Nonetheless, it is a true cognitive bias that we have. There is also another saying that still water runs deep. This is why the real smart people are those who keep quiet most of the time as they tend to have some unfulfilled doubts that they are unsure of. Obviously, we all know about people trying to be smart aleck. So what’s the purpose of this article? In the stock market, there is this group of people called the sucker class. There are many annoying issues about them but the most annoying one is that they talk a lot and love to give stock tips. These are the people who also think that they know but actually they don’t. On the other hand, the most intelligent people tend not to be able to excel in the investment world. I would certainly consider some professor as really intelligent about the world. Quite a while back, a professor was telling me that the knowledge of Jim Rogers is minimal in the academia world. I was shocked. It takes a lot to mention that a billionaire investor such as Jim Rogers is wrong with his economics judgment. Nonetheless, I will not reject the notion. In fact it is more likely to be true. That is probably the issue with really smart people who don’t usually make it in the stock market. Issac Newton is one such example. He lost a huge sum of money during the South Sea bubble. He could not understand the madness of the crowd back then. I guess there is something more about real successful investors. By Toh Chin Sheng
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I would not say the Prof are smarter than the Jim Rogers or Jim Rogers is smarter than them. I think they are smart in their own ways. Those prof are very smart in their own field of research but they are not good in the stock market. While Jim, on the other hand, have the ability to spot trends way ahead of the normal folks, so he is smart in these area. He may get some of the economics theory or concepts wrong, but, econs in itself has such so many school of thought that it may be right in one school and wrong in the other school.
While Newton is smart in science, he is just not good at investment. Or, maybe his time is devoted in science that he don't have enough time for understanding how the market works.
So, all these great people, either Jim or the Prof or Newton, they are smart but in different field.