A good line from Kevin Williamson: “People who are high achievers in one field mistakenly believe that they possess a kind of generalized cleverness applicable to other areas of endeavor — call it Krugman’s Fallacy.” (H/T, Jim Geraghty)
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Never pick a fight with a man who buys pixels by the terabyte.
Is Krugman actually a high achiever, though? In an area of achievement that doesn’t also include Charles Blow or Jennifer Rubin, that is.
He did get a Nobel. So yeah, he was.
Williamson seems frequently to suffer from the same fallacy he [accurately] assigns to Krugman.
I thought that was Dunning-Kruger. Also, I believe it applies even to stupid people who live their entire lives on the accolades resulting from one good guess.
Pul Krugman being a prime example.
D-K doesn’t require any achievement at all to engender the unsupported self-esteem. eg: Schmalfeldt.
The lack of self-awareness of Kevin Williamson is breathtaking.