A series of eight studies has uncovered a consistent pattern among people who believe in conspiracy theories: they tend to be overconfident in their cognitive abilities and significantly overestimate how much others agree with them. The findings, published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, suggest that conspiracy belief may be fueled less by active motivations and more by a mistaken sense of certainty.

This research was conducted in response to a growing need to understand why people come to believe in conspiracy theories, especially those that are widely rejected by experts and the broader public. Prior work has emphasized motivations like the desire to feel unique, or to explain social and political events in a way that aligns with personal identity. But the researchers behind this new work proposed a different explanation. They hypothesized that people who consistently overestimate their own intellectual performance might be more likely to hold onto fringe beliefs and to falsely assume that others share their views.
https://x.com/ScottAdamsSays/status/1934593799701082244

Cool now what constitutes a conspiracy theory

>>507619087 (OP)
Nothing irks me more when the term 'conspiracy theory' can just be slapped on anything. As if conspiracies just do not exist (Experts agree!)

This is why for any thread talking about the subversion of the west be jews and judeo-marxists, pizzagate, epstein, etc. are always interrupted by flat earthers, nuke deniers, etc.

>>507619174
It's whatever the (((EXPERTS))) reject of course.
Never question the (((EXPERTS)))

>>507619087 (OP)
>ahh no goy only we can brainwash the masses
>you must agree with the largest television audience!
faggot

>>507619087 (OP)
Sorry, I'm unvaccinated
https://flatearth.ws/covid-19

>>507619087 (OP)
The CIA encourages outlandish conspiracy theories because the vocal retards that are attracted to them will discredit actual wrongdoing by associating themselves with a group that has valid criticism.

>>507619752
That sounds like a conspiracy theory to muddy the waters of conspiracy theory. I think you are overrating your cognitive abilities (aka you're dumb for being confident in what you witnessed).

>>507619087 (OP)
>and think most others agree with them
Do these stupid fuckers even comprehend what a conspiracy theorist actually is?
>>507619437
>>507619654
I met a flat-earther the other day, seemed like an otherwise pretty cool guy. On a scale of 1-10, how dangerous is hanging out with him, where 1 is "not at all," and 10 is "certain to be violently murdered?"

>>507619087 (OP)
'Conspiracy theories' appeal to the dumbest and the smartest. The conventional narratives appeal to midwits, because they're designed for them

>>507620136
Are you a fucking moron?
Can you think?

Then there's no danger in hanging out with him, It's just if you know basics about our planet, physics, or geography he should irk you because he's a delusional retard lmao.
Flat earthers are just low-IQ people typically with very high trust issues; or people chronically online and detached from reality.
Maybe one day you can both save up and he can take his first plane ride on a path that is impossible if the world was indeed a flat plane.

>>507619752
/thread
see their mouthpieces pushing idiocy like reptilians, pyramid space ships and aliens in the same breath as entirely reasonable observations.
deny, discredit, deceive.

>>507619087 (OP)
>Conspiracy believers tend to overrate their cognitive abilities and think most others agree

So literally the average human being................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

>>507619752
CIA didn't invent this, it's routine masonic well poisoning
>>507620852
>“Even people who believed very fringe conspiracies, such as that scientists are conspiring to hide the truth about the Earth being flat, thought that their views were in the majority
I would really like to see this replicated. Sounds like bullshit

>This thread in a nutshell

>>507621141
>the average human being
Do most people think they're smarter than everyone else? I've met a lot of people who are of an average IQ who openly acknowledge they're not the smartest person out there, although I see it more often with people who are actually intelligent. The intelligent people seem more aware of their own limitations.

/pol/ is probably the lowest IQ board, objectively speaking.

>>507621006
>spinning ball
>entirely reasonable observations
lmao

I'm unvaccinated
And in 6 billion years the sun will die and when that happens I will still be unvaccinated

>>507619087 (OP)
>study says

An old study shows that OP is a faggot and will be for all time.

>>507621502
>Do most people think they're smarter than everyone else?
Nice lie, not what the citation said.

>>507619087 (OP)
>especially those that are widely rejected by experts
Lmfao. Go live your dumb cattle life with your dumb cattle outcomes, nobody cares.

>>507621787
Do you think most people believe they're smarter than they are?

>>507622046
Stop lying, that's not what the original quotation said.

>>507619087 (OP)
Nothing wrong with being certain and confident in your built ideals.

>>507622046
Most people injected themselves with a completely unnecessary gene therapy for the common cold, I’m definitely smarter than every last one of them.

>>507622116
???????
That is what the original quote said about conspiracy believers, which is what we're discussing
>a consistent pattern among people who believe in conspiracy theories: they tend to be overconfident in their cognitive abilities

>>507619087 (OP)
>A series of eight studies has uncovered a consistent pattern among people who believe in conspiracy theories: they tend to be overconfident in their cognitive abilities and significantly overestimate how much others agree with them.
That's funny, I noticed the same thing in most people whom don't believe in conspiracy theories too.
It's almost like 90% of people are just fucking retarded animals and overly confident in how retarded they are regardless of what nonsense they believe in.

>>507622310
>I’m definitely smarter than every last one of them.
That would only be true if someone doing a stupid thing means that person is stupid in general.

>>507622352
Stop pretending you are stupid, you know fully well what I quoted!

>>507621141
>>507622504
The same sentence as the one I quoted?

>>507622572
Can you stop pretending you are stupid, it isn't clever.

>>507622352
Cognitive abilities are inherently difficult to measure. LLM’s have near perfect memory / problem solving capabilities and yet a single cell organism has higher cognition. Everyone has woken up to the psyops (“conspiracy theories”) that governments abuse their citizens with and there’s no putting the genie back in the bottle. It’s already over for you people and no study is going to change that.

>>507619087 (OP)
>significantly overestimate how much others agree with them
yeah dude that's why conspiracy theorists dismiss the plebs and call them sheep

>>507622484
Stupid people tend to do stupid things, this isn’t complicated.

>>507623183
Every single person who has ever lived does stupid things, including very intelligent people as well as complete retards.

>>507619087 (OP)
That's interesting. I like to believe conspiracy theories but I am convinced that other people overestimate my intellectual abilities as I am called super smart all the time. But I don't think I really am that smart.

>>507623566
The magnitude of the mistake matters.

>>507622742
I'll try once more because this is becoming circular.
>>507621141
>So literally the average human being......................
How is the following description that you have quoted "Conspiracy believers tend to overrate their cognitive abilities and think most others agree" applicable to the 'average human being'?

>>507623046
>Cognitive abilities are inherently difficult to measure
True but not relevant, what these 'researchers' measured was performance relative to expectation
That's not to say these results aren't retard-biased, they most likely are. Probably intentionally

>>507623800
You'd need to believe that someone making what you consider a 'mistake' invalidates their IQ score, which isn't correct. You can look at various brilliant people in their fields who had chaotic personal lives for example, non stop mistakes being made, but they were still high IQ.

Take your pick of someone who is an expert in their field today, any field you like, see what they did in regards to the vaccine (if it's publicly available to find out) and tell me with a straight face you're more intelligent than these people.

>>507619087 (OP)
this is just rightoidism (and other expressions of faith in the unfalsifiable, like religion) in a nutshell

>>507619087 (OP)
You could just say Dunning-Kruger Effect retard. Tell me why I know a girl that's a psychologist with a masters in psych who doesn't know what Dunning-Kruger or the MBTI are? I get those are more pop psychology but that goes to show she has no interest in it beyond work. Bitches don't even master their trade, meanwhile everyone here is a polymath.

>>507620852

>>507624641
That people with a high IQ modified their genes to produce spike protein until they die is proof IQ tests are a flawed measure of cognition and intelligence.

>>507624641
Someone who is an expert in their field is knowledgeable in their field. That doesn’t mean the things they know aren’t wrong. All of your confusion would be cleared up if you understood why appealing to experts is logically fallacious.

>>507619087 (OP)
dilbert man is just butt hurt he was accidentally wrong.