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by fouc 1601 days ago
It's not sarcastic at all but I suppose it's sort of tongue-in-cheek?

Antivaxxers are probably not highly intelligent.. But they will think they are because of Dunning-Kruger effect.

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> Antivaxxers are probably not highly intelligent.. But they will think they are because of Dunning-Kruger effect.

DK is basically “people of all ability levels tend to see themselves slightly closer to the 70th percentile than they are”, not “people at the bottom see themselves at the top”.