A stunning Dunning-Kruger example

From Beef Supremacy in Portland by Kevin D. Williamson. Kind of snarky but amusingly snarky.

But the kulturkampf brigades will have only conformity, abject and absolute. That is part of the doctrine of “inclusion,” which, perversely enough, exists for the purpose of excluding certain people with unpopular political or religious opinions.

The overwhelming hypocrisy arising from the mismatch between actual behavior and theoretical demands of those advocating for inclusion, tolerance, respect, diversity, etc. is not enough remarked.

In a different vein:

I recently spoke at a conference for education journalists, mainly because I was eager to witness the interaction between the best products of America’s colleges of education and those of America’s journalism schools—our least-selective and second-least-selective college majors, respectively.

I know that education is the least selective major but can't confirm the assertion for journalism. I simply don't know, but it is certainly plausible and Williamson is likely correct.

It would be interesting whether journalism also displays the odd phenomenon of education programs. Education programs are the least selective programs and have the lowest standardized test scores of their admits but they also have the highest grades. A classic example of Dunning-Kruger Effect.

It might explain a lot if it were true that the education and media sectors are populated by people that attended the two least selective programs constituted of people with the lowest abilities and yet both also had the highest self-regard and grades. Maybe much of what is represented as polarization and ideological discord is actually simply a product of the psychological dissonance inherent in the two pivotal sectors of media and education.