OMFG watch this

[Stevie777]

The guy who was supervising her thinks it's funny and lets her continue..?

[peatff]

The guy who was supervising her thinks it's funny and lets her continue..?

 

He's going to inherit the farm

[Haironyourchest]

"There are old grannies, and there are bold grannies.... But there are no old, bold grannies." Except for herself, obviously.

[Stevie777]

Note to young uns, This lady has voting rights.

[spudulike]

And left handed!

[Treewolf]

... how do stupid people get away with stuff like this? Anyone with half a brain would be so tentative it would have gone wrong ....

 

Is there some sort of higher power looking out for stupid people or something?

 

This is actually a more interesting question than you might think. It is this type of behaviour that lead to a study by two psychologists who identified the eponymous Dunning-Kruger Effect.

 

Dunning-Kruger Effect - Wikipedia

 

In essence what they hypothesised is that if you are very stupid, you are unable to figure out if a task is difficult or dangerous and will as a result underestimate the difficulty and/or the risks involved. Intelligent people, on the otherhand, have a tendency to overestimate complexity and/or risk since they have a greater awareness of the issues involved.

 

I would say that this video is a perfect example of the Dunning-Kruger effect!

 

Their original study was prompted after they read about the case of a genius by the name of McArthur Wheeler, who was convinced that if he painted his face with lemon juice he would become invisible to security cameras (sadly I am not kidding, there really are people this stupid). In 1995 Wheeler robbed two banks in Pittsburgh in the same afternoon, convinced that he'd conceived the perfect crime. Unsurprisingly Wheeler was (a) virtually unable to see whilst conducting his robberies due to the lemon juice in his eyes, and (b) caught within hours since he showed up perfectly on the security video and was very quickly identified. When caught he was genuinely baffled how the cops managed to identify him, so convinced was he that he was invisible to cameras.

 

Dunning and Kruger were professionally intersted in how someone could actually be quite that stupid, and this lead to their research.

[Paul in the woods]

That video is truely shocking, the stump is ridiculously high.

[billpierce]

confusingly im actually quite impressed with her. there are many videos of similarly unskilled 20 something year old americans doing similar tree "fells" and i dont see what she is doing is any worse.

 

cant help but smile at how pleased she seems.

 

obviously would have been a pretty different story had it not been as successful

[Stevie777]

confusingly im actually quite impressed with her. there are many videos of similarly unskilled 20 something year old americans doing similar tree "fells" and i dont see what she is doing is any worse.

 

cant help but smile at how pleased she seems.

 

obviously would have been a pretty different story had it not been as successful

The old girl and her supervisor are treating it like it is some sort of game and the saw a toy. That tree could have ended her. Easily and the guy who let her loose with it should be ashamed. Mental.

[TIMON]

Honestly, that is freaky....

Has someone spiked her tea with illegal substances?

Mamba or PCP ?

 

 

Timon.