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This Online Group Exists To Shame Overconfident Know-It-Alls Who Incorrectly Correct Other People (New Pics)
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It’s very likely that you know at least one person who makes it their life’s mission to show how knowledgeable or smart they are, despite being far from knowledgeable or smart. These people are usually referred to by folks as know-it-alls, and they seem to be invading the online space more and more each day. The anonymity of the internet allows them to go about butting into everyone’s business, believing they know everything while everyone else is simply wrong.
To gladly put them in their respective place, we have a whole list of confidently incorrect people from this Facebook group hilariously failing and choking on their own words. Scroll down to find them, and don’t forget to upvote those instances that made you feel bad for the people who voluntarily put themselves in these situations.
While you're at it, don't forget to check out a conversation with a board-certified clinical psychologist, Dr. Krista Jordan, who kindly agreed to share a few tips on dealing with know-it-alls.
Comment from Psychologist Daniel Hoadley
Some people love correcting others because it reinforces their sense of intelligence and control in social interactions. According to Alfred Adler’s theory of the superiority complex, this behavior can stem from deep-seated feelings of inferiority.
By constantly pointing out mistakes, they create an illusion of dominance, using corrections as a way to validate their own intelligence and self-worth. Rather than simply aiming for accuracy, their need to correct others often serves as a defense mechanism to mask personal insecurities. – Daniel Hoadley
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Board-certified clinical psychologist Dr. Krista Jordan tells Bored Panda that if someone is acting like a know-it-all, they're probably trying to cover up their insecurities.
"People who are secure in themselves don't need to flaunt their knowledge and would not risk alienating people or hurting their feelings by bragging. People who need to act as though they know everything are just trying to soothe their deeply deficient self-esteem," she explains.
Also, humans as a whole have a tendency to overestimate their knowledge, which makes them think that they know more than they actually do. Even though we often lack the full information, we still believe we have enough for decision-making. This cognitive bias is called the Illusion of Information Adequacy.
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PandaGoPanda 9 months ago
I’ve lived 55 years with my green eyes so I guess they’re not that toxic.
Combined with naïve realism, a psychological bias that makes individuals think that their beliefs are objective and reasonable, it drives people to assume that anyone who disagrees with them is wrong despite their failure to consider what they might be missing.
Then there's a Dunning-Kruger effect, which deceives people into thinking they're an expert in everything. An issue with this is that individuals experiencing this cognitive bias feel the need to impose their ideas, as absolute truths, making others look incompetent or ignorant.
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As you can imagine, being in the presence of a person who tries to put down others with their false sense of knowledge can be annoying, so we asked for some advice from Dr. Jordan on how to deal with them, online and in real life.
"The best way to handle a know-it-all, whether online or in real life, is to model having good self-esteem," she says. "Which means being humble. For instance, if a know-it-all is saying the earth is flat, you can just say, 'Well, that's interesting, I realize people have different opinions about that. My personal opinion is that it's round, but I know not everyone agrees with that,'" Dr. Jordan suggests.
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Aidan Pite 9 months ago
Well if I'm not an animal, then what the s**t am I? Mineral or vegetable?
"That will accomplish a number of things," she further explained, "including 1) avoiding a confrontation, because you stated that you don't expect everyone to agree with you, 2) showing the person who thinks they know everything what a mature and self-confident response looks like and 3) does not debase you in any way because you never asserted that the know-it-all was correct."
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Most people probably aren't even aware they're being frustrating with their know-it-all behavior, so the last thing we were curious to know from Dr. Jordan is how to avoid becoming too overconfident with our knowledge.
"If you find yourself tempted to show off what you know around others, you probably want to look at your self-esteem. Not just superficially but deep down, how do you feel about yourself? Do you think that you have essential worth, regardless of your accomplishments or achievements? Or do you think you only have worth based on what you DO?"
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Apatheist Account2 9 months ago
Hence the teenage joke about mine's twelve inches, but I don't use it as a rule.
"A healthy person has a balance of both, knowing that the moment they were born, they had essential value in the world (before they could possibly achieve anything) and they also know that achievements can be a fun source of healthy pride in the self. A person with good self-worth will not base it solely on what they know, or what they do for a job, or how much money they make, or anything external," she concluded.
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Michael Largey 9 months ago
I have a friend from the Netherlands. Tell her she speaks German and she'll ram a wooden shoe up your nether region.
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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 9 months ago
Many years ago here in Australia, there was a sticky tape brand called 'Durex'. In England, at the time, there was a brand of condom with the same name. People were often mildly confused when asking for one in the other country.
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OzymandiasTheManokit They/Them 9 months ago
we should be concerned that people gave them a thumbs up
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OnlySometimes 9 months ago
Can we at least all agree on the stupidity of failing to even copy the word "hemispheres"?
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Forrest Hobbs 9 months ago (edited)
There's no such thing as "the" British accent. We have many accents - lots and lots and lots and you really don't want to suggest to the Scots or the Welsh that they talk like us English (it gets much more complicated than that, especially once you take into account our overseas branch in the north of Ireland). I personally have more than one accent - variable speech, depending on circumstances. I don't often pronounce the "t" in often, but it's been known to happen, especially on the telephone.
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Rich Black 9 months ago
To be be fair, there no straight lines when you represent a globe on a 2 dimensional map.
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Oerff On Tour 9 months ago
A Milky Way travels at 230 km/s (828,000 km/h) or 143 mi/s (514,000 mph) through our own Galaxy. Sometimes a bit faster, sometimes slower, depending on the speed and direction you throw this delicious chocolate confectionery here on earth.
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Evelyn Baldwin 9 months ago
In MLA format, the first line of the paper is the student name (obscured in green) followed on subsequent lines by the teacher name, course name, date, and title (centered). Then the essay itself starts. However this is an example of horrific grading. Studies show that the volume of comments are inversely proportionate to their effectiveness - the more comments, the less they stick.
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david stephens 9 months ago
The correct term is "deviled eggs"; "doubled eggs" is not a recognized culinary term, so if you're talking about hard-boiled eggs with the yolk mixed and stuffed back in, it's always "deviled eggs". Explanation: "Deviled" refers to a cooking style where food is seasoned with spices, often spicy, which is why the term is used for this dish. Key points: Correct term: Deviled eggs Meaning: Hard-boiled eggs with the yolk removed, mixed with ingredients like mayo and mustard, then stuffed back into the egg white. "Doubled eggs": Not a recognized culinary term
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DelvianBlue 9 months ago
Well, he's not wrong. Frankenstein is the monster in the novel. However, the reanimated corpse he made had a chance at becoming a decent person if his creator hadn't been so awful.
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Thee8thsense 9 months ago
I once worked at a pre-school named Brussels and Sprouts. The babies being Brussels, the older kids, Sprouts. Just sayin'.
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Kenneth Barns 9 months ago (edited)
But ... those aren't kanji, those are (kata)kana. I agree that having a system in Braille for Chinese, and Japanese _kanji_, would be a nightmare. (I'm not an expert in the field, and would happily defer to an expert who could inform me differently.)
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Bi.Felicia 9 months ago
As a Marine, please don't refer to me as a soldier. I am a Marine, Soldiers are members of the Army.
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Oerff On Tour 9 months ago
Drinking 10 glasses of alcohol in an American costal city is considered a wild night. 10 drinks in week is considered being a n alcoholic in the Bible Belt. 10 glasses of vodka in an hour in Finland is considered Tuesday
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Mtn Lungta 9 months ago
10 hrs 1 min and could that symbol be a boat, perchance? It is definitely not a bike.
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Mtn Lungta 9 months ago
We have the Banjo Bowl. The name was inspired by former Bombers kicker Troy Westwood, who had referred to Riders fans as a “bunch of banjo-pickin' inbreds” following the 2003 LDC. He subsequently apologized acknowledging that not all of them could play the banjo. True story.
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david stephens 9 months ago
I see a broken slow cooker insert, but the comment "you cannot put anything in the slow cooker" has me confused, if you cannot put anything in then wtf is the point of having one.
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Zelda McLink 9 months ago
The show is the second spin off of the film! The first is Wellington Paranormal, and you should check it out if you like WWDITS.
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Kenneth Barns 9 months ago (edited)
All of this palaver about "race" and "ethnicity" is subject to local (usually national) conceptualisation about what counts as a "race", how many "races" there are, and which "race" someone is allocated to. One's race based on a US conception of race might be very different from one's race based on a Brazilian conception of race. Australia abandoned the (official) race classification system some years ago, and now governments only collect information on nation of birth, and ancestral culture of origin (with multiple responses possible). Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander data (one, both, or neither) _is_ routinely collected, based on self-identification.
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zpxsd8qq7p 9 months ago
Sloppy, but not exactly wrong. At the time Arizona territory was the south half of what later became the states of New Mexico and Arizona. Starting in the summer of 1861, the understaffed US Army had to abandon Arizona to armed units of traitors invading from Texas. Patriots in the state of California and territory of Colorado rallied to the flag and reinforced US Army units, which then liberated the Arizona territory in the spring of 1862. The Arizona and New Mexico territories remained free through the rest of the war.
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MonsterMum 9 months ago
UK here - yes on bank holidays everyone is off work. Patients are left unattended in hospitals, you need an ambulance you have to wait until the next day. Fortunately, our great British reserve means we all maintain a stiff upper lip if unwell and wait to have an accident or heart attack.
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The Commentator 9 months ago
As someone who has a small collection of transformers figures and occasionally expands them, I can confirm they are absolutely insane. They are thinking of Starscream.
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Koalalover 9 months ago
To be fair to the person correcting, I think the lack of punctuation has contributed to the confusion here, it should read "Liam Payne's (child)".
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Lady Eowyn 9 months ago
The movie Nosferatu was based on Stoker's book Dracula. Stoker's widow sued for copyright infringment.
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Mike F 9 months ago
At least it's not just me! My head is POUNDING after reading these. Pretty entertaining though.
Load More Replies... Mtn Lungta 9 months ago
Can you incoherent me now? I'm unbabble to think straight and my eyes are obscened.
Mike F 9 months ago
At least it's not just me! My head is POUNDING after reading these. Pretty entertaining though.
Load More Replies... Mtn Lungta 9 months ago
Can you incoherent me now? I'm unbabble to think straight and my eyes are obscened.
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