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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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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) 10 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 10 months ago
we should be concerned that people gave them a thumbs up
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OnlySometimes 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
As a Marine, please don't refer to me as a soldier. I am a Marine, Soldiers are members of the Army.
FreeTheUnicorn 10 months ago
The distinction is made by individual branches and governments. The generic term of soldier is still ok if you don't mean it for a particular branch. Merriam Webster defines soldier as "one engaged in military service and especially in the army"
Who am I, where am I 🇺🇸 6 months ago
Obviously, for those of us who serve or have served, we feel very differently, no matter what branch. Rip that page out and burn it because, It's WRONG
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Grey Beard 10 months ago (edited)
I had 3 friends in the armed forces, they were all called Phil. To differentiate between them, I gave them nicknames based on which of the forces they were in. Air Phil was in the Air Force, Sea Phil was in the Navy, the last one was in the Army, but he was a bit of a rubbish friend was Land Phil.
Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 10 months ago
"Soldier" primarily refers to army personnel . Navy personnel are usually called "sailors" . Air Force personnel are typically called "airmen" Marines are Marines
BeesEelsAndPups 10 months ago
Naval ground and amphibious units = Marine. The Marines are a corps within the Department of the Navy. Otherwise they are called sailors, or my personal favorite, seamen. Airmen are indeed from the Air Force. I am hoping that the Space Force has Spacemen. And when I was in the Army, I argued we should be called Earthmen, but my Staff Sergeant told me, how did he put it, "shut the f*ck up Specialist!", so yeah we were boring old soldiers.
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Lyone Fein 10 months ago
OMG. This is so stupid. Any person who is employed in the military service of any nation is a soldier, regardless of their specific branch of duty. "Soldier" is a general term for a fighter. Other terms like sailor, marine, infantry, pilot describe a soldier's specialization and indicate their branch of service.
Crystalwitch60 10 months ago
😳😳😳oh boy another thicko ! navy forces does not have soldiers good grief did u post that original post lmao try going to a marine n call em soldiers or squaddies icu will be waiting for u 🙈
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Ace 10 months ago
Love the way the Marines are getting riled up by this. You carry a gun and shoot at people, you're a soldier.
Strings 10 months ago
Marines tend to exist in a "riled up" state. And I have actually seen them throw hands over this
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Nancy Parker 10 months ago
What about sailors in the Navy, are they not military too? Seamen, ensigns, even all the ranks are distinct from ground troops.
Who am I, where am I 10 months ago
We worked hard to earn the title of U.S. Marine. I am offended when anyone calls me a Soldier. We are Marines for life. One day, if you call the wrong Marine a Soldier, you'll never forget how to address us again
Crystalwitch60 10 months ago
DONT YOU EVER lol call a marine a soldier !! EVER they are not one n the same !
Agree to Disagree 10 months ago
Royal Marines are Commandos, if that helps to add any confusion to the mix.
Riley Quinn 10 months ago
Sure, you can call a Marine a soldier, but not to their face. Chase is correct. Since the Marines are part of the Department of the Navy, they are members of the naval infantry, not soldiers.
Nix 10 months ago
I can't help but chuckle at military personnel who engage in that kind of self-mystification. We get it, you think you're a super-special little snowflake to whom normal standards can never apply. Now put a pin in that overinflated ego and get over yourself.
Lorraine R 6 months ago
Ego has nothing to do with it. Each service has its specific mission, and the training they receive serves the mission. Each service has its own traditions, developed over 250 years, and its members take pride in their traditions and in the duties they fulfill in service of the mission. BTW, I find it interesting that you've applied the term "snowflake" to people who swear an oath to sacrifice their lives to ensure the survival of their country. Would you do the same?
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Oerff On Tour 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
At least it's not just me! My head is POUNDING after reading these. Pretty entertaining though.
Load More Replies... Mtn Lungta 10 months ago
Can you incoherent me now? I'm unbabble to think straight and my eyes are obscened.
Broccoli 10 months ago
I have officially lost all hope in humanity after reading this post. Humans are doomed
Parmeisan 10 months ago
I'm going to risk sounding dumb and suggest that we shouldn't post this sort of thread without including the correct information, please. There are (gasp) topics that I'm not the most knowledgeable on, and then some of the posts are people confidently correcting one another and you don't know which of them is right without looking it up. Certainly, reading the comments is not enough because there are always people defending both sides. I'd love to be able to read the topic and learn something, without doing a bunch of research. Surely I'm not the only one with this issue?
Tha Monkey 10 months ago
You don't sound dumb at all; a wee bit naively positive and logical, but definitely not dumb.
Load More Replies... Jay Scales 10 months ago
It seems to me that there's a whole lot of stupid people who like arguing with each other! In half of these examples, neither party knew what they were talking about!
Robin Roper 10 months ago
We need to issue IQ test to determine if people get to interact in the world.
Verena 10 months ago
"Ukraine started the war" - as the US vice president firmly believes. The US president admires Putin, who did everything to protect his soldiers after they shot civilian flight MH17 (Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur) out of the air on 17 July 2014. 298 people dead - 192 of them were Dutch. The whole nation watched on television or lined the roads when their remains were brought home in dozens of hearses. The other victims were from Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, UK, Belgium, Philippines, Germany, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa. Trump does not give a toss for that one person with double citizenship of the Netherlands/USA. But the US vice president believes Ukraine started the war and the US president adores Putin because he is a winner. Imagine the 192 had been US citizens.
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
I feel very stupider. I don't know what to do now. Brain screaming scrambled
Sam Lombardo 10 months ago
Interesting how many of those examples seems to take place in the US.
Nona Jaynes 10 months ago
I've lost both time and brain cells reading this. Humanity is doomed.
Apatheist Account2 10 months ago (edited)
I wonder what fools we'd have made of ourselves in the 60s and 70s when I was growing up? I recall someone trying to convince me that R was a vowel when I was about 9 or 10.
Karen Bryan 10 months ago
I refer you to the song "Little-Known Facts", from the musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". It's Lucy, sticking to her wacky notions of how the world works.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 10 months ago
i started this post thinking that this sounded like a funny community to follow and now i'm just depressed about humanity
Israel Hinojosa Baliño (Ishiba RO) 10 months ago
Love the fact that the first comment in each example was just confirming the existence of these superconfident know-it-alls. I actually enjoy when «marines» got offended and suggested that they will kill or at least violently lecture those who call them soldiers. Just imagine! these soldiers are suppose to defend your country but despite being mar-ines, they don't know how to sail among the waved of common people.
Crystalwitch60 10 months ago
I’m 60 lol n the more of these I read the more people SERIOUSLY worry me 🙈😳
Mike F 10 months ago
At least it's not just me! My head is POUNDING after reading these. Pretty entertaining though.
Load More Replies... Mtn Lungta 10 months ago
Can you incoherent me now? I'm unbabble to think straight and my eyes are obscened.
Broccoli 10 months ago
I have officially lost all hope in humanity after reading this post. Humans are doomed
Parmeisan 10 months ago
I'm going to risk sounding dumb and suggest that we shouldn't post this sort of thread without including the correct information, please. There are (gasp) topics that I'm not the most knowledgeable on, and then some of the posts are people confidently correcting one another and you don't know which of them is right without looking it up. Certainly, reading the comments is not enough because there are always people defending both sides. I'd love to be able to read the topic and learn something, without doing a bunch of research. Surely I'm not the only one with this issue?
Tha Monkey 10 months ago
You don't sound dumb at all; a wee bit naively positive and logical, but definitely not dumb.
Load More Replies... Jay Scales 10 months ago
It seems to me that there's a whole lot of stupid people who like arguing with each other! In half of these examples, neither party knew what they were talking about!
Robin Roper 10 months ago
We need to issue IQ test to determine if people get to interact in the world.
Verena 10 months ago
"Ukraine started the war" - as the US vice president firmly believes. The US president admires Putin, who did everything to protect his soldiers after they shot civilian flight MH17 (Amsterdam - Kuala Lumpur) out of the air on 17 July 2014. 298 people dead - 192 of them were Dutch. The whole nation watched on television or lined the roads when their remains were brought home in dozens of hearses. The other victims were from Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, UK, Belgium, Philippines, Germany, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa. Trump does not give a toss for that one person with double citizenship of the Netherlands/USA. But the US vice president believes Ukraine started the war and the US president adores Putin because he is a winner. Imagine the 192 had been US citizens.
Nice Beast Ludo 10 months ago
I feel very stupider. I don't know what to do now. Brain screaming scrambled
Sam Lombardo 10 months ago
Interesting how many of those examples seems to take place in the US.
Nona Jaynes 10 months ago
I've lost both time and brain cells reading this. Humanity is doomed.
Apatheist Account2 10 months ago (edited)
I wonder what fools we'd have made of ourselves in the 60s and 70s when I was growing up? I recall someone trying to convince me that R was a vowel when I was about 9 or 10.
Karen Bryan 10 months ago
I refer you to the song "Little-Known Facts", from the musical "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown". It's Lucy, sticking to her wacky notions of how the world works.
somnomania (she/her, queer) 10 months ago
i started this post thinking that this sounded like a funny community to follow and now i'm just depressed about humanity
Israel Hinojosa Baliño (Ishiba RO) 10 months ago
Love the fact that the first comment in each example was just confirming the existence of these superconfident know-it-alls. I actually enjoy when «marines» got offended and suggested that they will kill or at least violently lecture those who call them soldiers. Just imagine! these soldiers are suppose to defend your country but despite being mar-ines, they don't know how to sail among the waved of common people.
Crystalwitch60 10 months ago
I’m 60 lol n the more of these I read the more people SERIOUSLY worry me 🙈😳
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