Now, I'm not saying he is or he isn't--you know this guy and I don't. But are you actually sure all of these claims are true? Dudes who fall for this shit tend to lie a lot. Just saying don't take it at face value. Econ in particular seems like an area where it would really be easy to "fake it til you make it".

[–] jemorgan@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No that’s a totally valid question and I’d wonder the same thing.

But he definitely is all of those things, he’s got a dozen published nonfiction books that are easy to find, with a picture of his face on them haha. Listed as faculty/former faculty at Utah State University, CSU Chico, two BYU campuses, University of San Diego, University of Malaysia. Reasonably high profile on LinkedIn.

I used to go on family vacations with this guy’s family as a teenager, his whole family are genuinely some of the best people I know. But he’s a perfect example of the incredible power of the confirmation bias. I just try to remember that someone like him can have such seemingly obvious blind spots, I definitely can too.

[–] xantoxis@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Fair enough. The flip side is someone with so many credentials might begin to think of himself as smarter than everyone; therefore anything he thinks is probably right, isn't it so? And he never questions where the "information" in his head came from. Few of us do.