poop out
to stop working properly
The old radio finally pooped out.
to become very tired
We worked all morning but we pooped out in the afternoon.
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午前３時に起きて，２試合観戦して，二度寝しました。スイス勢同士の
可能ですわ。
菅野投手から千賀投手へのリレーで，逃げ切って欲しいところですわ。
１点差ぐらいで３番手投手登板だと少し不安ですわ。
“Shut up”と言われてしまった話で笑ってしまったことを思い出しました。
アーセナル，またもや負けてしまいました。ヴェンゲル監督の去就もすでに
決まっているとの本人談をあるようです。そろそろ新監督で新しいサッカースタイルを
見せてほしいとの思いが強いのは，多くのファンが思っていることかもしれません。
墓参りに帰ってきた弟の明日の帰りは春秋航空の朝一の便なので，大変なんですわ。
空港のターミナル内でも待機できるようですわ。
おまけ その１
『攻略！英語リスニング』
Lesson 46 Cleopatra Step 2
DOMITIUS ENOBARBUS:
Never; he will not:
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety:
other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry
Where most she satisfies; for vilest things
Become themselves in her: that the holy priests
Bless her when she is riggish.
From Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra,1606
おまけ その２
教えてくれないただひとつのこと― 』がとりあげられて，「著者は対応策として，新聞やテレビなど，
プロによって編集された従来型マスメディアの重要性を強調する。読者はそれを通して自分が興味の
ない領域の情報にも触れるからだ。処方箋としてはいささか頼りない印象をぬぐえないが」とあります。
キーワードとされている「ダニング=クルーガー効果」の元ネタは次の論文ですわ。
Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own
incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments
by Kruger J1, Dunning D, J Pers Soc Psychol. 1999 Dec;77(6):1121-34.
Abstract
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and
intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs,
in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden:
Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate
choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to
realize it. Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the
bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated
their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th
percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd. Several analyses linked
this miscalibration to deficits in metacognitive skill, or the capacity to distinguish
accuracy from error. Paradoxically, improving the skills of participants, and thus
increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations
of their abilities.
1999年の論文なので，その後，関連する研究がワンサカ行なわれているんですが，フォローは
省略します。付随して，よく引用されるラッセルの論考があるので，それをコピペしておきます。
Bertrand Russell: The Triumph of Stupidity
In: Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935, v.2, p.28.
What has been happening in Germany is a matter of the gravest portent for the
whole civilised world. Throughout the last hundred and fifty years, individual
Germans have done more to further civilisation than the individuals of any other
country; during the latter half of this period, Germans, collectively, have been
equally effective in degrading civilisation. At the present day the most
distinguished names in the world of learning are still German; the most degraded
and brutal government is also German.
Of the individual Germans whose work has caused Germany to be respected,
Given a few years of Nazi rule, Germany will sink to the level of a horde of Goths.
What has happened? What has happened is quite simple. Those elements of the
population which are both brutal and stupid (and these two qualities usually go
together) have combined against the rest.
By murder, by torture, by imprisonment, by the terrorism of armed forces, they
have subjected the intelligent and humane parts of the nation and seized power
with the view of furthering the glory of the Fatherland.
What has happened in Germany may well happen elsewhere. The British Fascists
are not as yet a large party, but they are growing rapidly, and if at any future time
there should be danger of a Labour Government that meant business, they would
government of India is a form of Fascism, all the worse for being alien. The
British in India, like the Hitlerites in Germany, can only govern by putting the
best people in prison.
Brute force plays a much larger part in the government of the world than it did
before 1914, and what is especially alarming, force tends increasingly to fall into
the hands of those who are enemies of civilisation. The danger is profound and
terrible; it cannot be waved aside with easy optimism.
The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid
are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
Even those of the intelligent who believe that they have a nostrum are too
individualistic to combine with other intelligent men from whom they differ on
minor points. This was not always the case. A hundred years ago the
philosophical radicals formed a school of intelligent men who were just as sure
of themselves as the Hitlerites are; the result was that they dominated politics
and that the world advanced rapidly both in intelligence and in material well-being.
It is quite true that the intelligence of the philosophical radicals was very limited.
It is, I think, undeniable that the best men of the present day have a wider and
truer outlook, but the best men of that day had influence, while the best men of
this are impotent spectators. Perhaps we shall have to realise that scepticism and intellectual individualism are luxuries which in our tragic age must be forgone, and
if intelligence is to be effective, it will have to be combined with a moral fervour
which it usually possessed in the past but now usually lacks.
In this gloomy state of affairs, the brightest spot is America. In America
democracy still appears well established, and the men in power deal with
what is amiss by constructive measures, not by pogroms and wholesale
imprisonment. After the defeat of the French Revolution, democracy; discredited
by the reign of terror, reconquered the world from America. Perhaps America
is destined once more to save Europe from the consequences of its excesses.
(10 May 1933)
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