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All right. Well, I got a bunch of Sunday stories, so do your chores or do your exercise or do that thing you're doing, but don't listen to this in church.

All right. I wonder if there's any new backward science. Hm.

Here's some in PsyPost. Eric Dolan is writing about a study that found a strong link between loneliness and physical pain. There's a strong link between loneliness and physical pain. And I believe they're concluding that the direction of causality is that the loneliness is causing the physical pain.

Now, I'm no science professor, but do people who are in a lot of pain and people who are unhealthy, it goes on to include people who are just unhealthy, do they spend as much time around other people socializing? It's like, oh, I can't walk. I can't wait to go golfing with my foursome. Isn't this backwards that if you're in physical pain, the odds of you having as satisfying a personal life go way down? Backwards science. Backward science.

Well, I wonder if there's any science that they didn't have to do at all because they could have just asked me. Oh, here we go. Eric Dolan who's also writing in PsyPost that overconfidence in your ability to detect BS is linked to cognitive blind spots and narcissistic traits. So it's more evidence of the so-called Dunning-Kruger effect that the people who know the least are often under the impression that they're the ones who know the most.

And yeah, if you spent five minutes on the internet, you may have also noticed and could have also handled this research on your own that overconfidence in detecting BS is a big problem and it is linked to cognitive blind spots.

All right. I like to refer to this Dunning-Kruger thing as the dog effect. The dog effect. Did you ever wonder what your dog thinks when you go through life with your dog? Do you feel that your dog is looking at you and saying, "My god, did you just do some math in your head? That was impressive. I can't do that. Holy cow. Do you have more than one language? No. No way. And you can understand everybody's words. Wow. Wow."

Do you think your dog is impressed with your intelligence? Or does your dog just look at you and say, "I either want to go outside. I want you to give me food, scratch my head, or just let me lick my balls because I got nothing else on my mind right now." Well, I think it's probably closer to the latter. But the dog has no idea that you're much smarter than the dog. And here I'm making an assumption that I think will apply to almost all of you. You're almost all smarter than a dog. No, you are really. I know some of you have low self-esteem, but I'm here to assure you, you are smarter than a dog. Not a dolphin necessarily. You know, I wouldn't go full dolphin, but you're smarter than a dog for sure. I mean, probably not a husky. Not every one of you. I mean, statistically speaking, if you just looked at it that way, probably there's at least one person here who's not as smart as a husky. They're pretty smart. Yeah. And I would guess at least a handful, maybe a sudden. Not that I'm judging. I'm not judging at all.

But what I was saying is that the dog doesn't know that you're smarter than it. And that