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Hey neilfws, I'm very impressed with your high-brow reference to the Dunning Kruger effect. I would certainly subscribe to the hypothesis that BT sufferes from a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average.
Perhaps you'll indulge me to postulate the parallel possibility of a Schr?dinger's Cat paradym also being in effect here, along the following lines: "BT, along with a flask containing a poison and a radioactive source, is placed in a sealed commentary box. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills BT. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while (say, by the 3rd quarter), BT is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the comentary box, we see BT either alive or dead, not both alive and dead." This would explain the calibre of his commentary.
Perhaps you'll indulge me to postulate the parallel possibility of a Schr?dinger's Cat paradym also being in effect here, along the following lines: "BT, along with a flask containing a poison and a radioactive source, is placed in a sealed commentary box. If an internal Geiger counter detects radiation, the flask is shattered, releasing the poison that kills BT. The Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics implies that after a while (say, by the 3rd quarter), BT is simultaneously alive and dead. Yet, when we look in the comentary box, we see BT either alive or dead, not both alive and dead." This would explain the calibre of his commentary.
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