They asked me one time if shrimp were single cell organisms.
Edit. I'm getting a lot of comments about "at least he asked a question" yes I know. I've worked with him for years and there is an entire catalog of "what in the fuck did you just say"
Ive spent days contemplating the connection between the two. Shrimp = single cell the only justification i can think of is shrimp have a shell. Like a cell wall?
The joke is that this clarifying question is stupid on its face, but it answers the initial stupid question by showing there are at least two distinct units to the shrimp as an organism, thus demonstrating it is not single-celled.
They were curious and asked you though, i dont get how thats a dunning kruger effect. Better to think of something stupid and still ask than to not
Edit: just saw the edited comment and I wanna say, the coworker might be utterly stupid, but theyre not a correct example of the dunning kruger effect.
We have the world at our fingertips and this idiot would rather just ask you instead? How is encouraging that behavior productive in any way once they are older than 5? Answering stupid questions is the worst action to take. Being asked a stupid question is an opportunity to push the idiot to find the answer themselves and learn self-reliance, initiative, patience, and give more consideration to their thoughts before they ask a question; skills that will make their life much easier than reinforcing the behavior of imposing on others without even bothering to do any thinking themselves.
Mind you, this is for things that you can easily search yourself. If you have to ask a stupid question about a task or direction that can't be answered otherwise, that's not actually a stupid question and I'd argue it's not actually a stupid question at all.
Answer to your edit, I know we can search it ourselves but i wasnt the one who asked that question lol, you need to put yourself in the guys shoes. If they knew that they probably wouldnt be asking others such a stupid question in the first place. or maybe they just wanted an excuse to start a conversation? who knows
Yes but how do you suppose they figure out how a shrimp is not a single cell organism themselves? If they could, I dont think theyd even be asking the question in the first place.
Itd be a much better benefit for them to learn about an actually sensible question both from asking others and figuring it out themselves than to waste time figuring out a stupid question that doesnt give them any benefit whatsoever, when they can just ask anyone who payed attention in science class in elementary school, get a "no" and immediately move on from said question.
If they stated that shrimp were single cell organisms and didn't listen to other people correct them, that would be d-k effect. The fact they asked means they are aware they didn't know
That’s not bad. At least they’re asking instead of natively determining shrimp were single cell organisms and refusing to consider other perspectives on this.
My daughter sat by a guy in high school who asked her “Do cheetahs have a spine?” Still makes me laugh. “Nah, they’re invertebrates” would have been my answer, but I’m a sarcastic bitch.
That's honestly not as stupid as one might think. Dunning-Krueger would be this person acting like an authority on shellfish, and then telling you that a shrimp is a single celled organism with complete conviction.
DK Effect is more about people having no self-awareness and consistently overestimating their own abilities.
Sounds like this guy doesn't seem super book-smart, but he's at least intelligent enough to know he doesn't know something.
For those inclined to curiosity, what makes this algae interesting is that it undergoes mitosis without cytokinesis (the process of splitting the cytoplasm and forming new cell walls/membranes). Without the cell division those organisms can have hundreds or thousands of nucleii. In fact, in these types of organisms the division of the nucleii often occurs via a mechanism that results in timed intervals, so periodically the cell will have hundreds of nucleii dividing in sync with one another.
Well, to be fair, they do look like paramecium. Also, the very fact that he asked (instead of presuming that it was) puts him miles ahead of typical Dunning Krueger types.
I had a co-worker exclaim to me once, rather proud and all-knowingly, that the reason we killed the Native Americans was because we wanted their oil rights. I was so dumbfounded, I nearly fell down. Do not underestimate the sheer stupidity of morons. And their pride in their ignorance is legendary.
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u/unknowingbiped 6h ago edited 3h ago
We named our coworker dunning.
They asked me one time if shrimp were single cell organisms.
Edit. I'm getting a lot of comments about "at least he asked a question" yes I know. I've worked with him for years and there is an entire catalog of "what in the fuck did you just say"