OMFG watch this

[Yournamehere]

It coulda bin worse...

Imagine if she had a slight notion that the stem might bounce a bit when it fell and she took a couple or three steps backwards (away from us).

Wallop! Straight down on her head came the tree.

[devon TWiG]

I like this video more !!!! [ame]

[/ame] go to 8 minutes for the felling or just enjoy the rest as well !!! I expect a few of you will notice the incorrect sharpening technique tut tut ...

[huskywilson]

HAHA yeah ive watched a few of her ones too but kept it under the radar

[neiln]

The scary thing is how blunt the chain is

[flatyre]

nice pins though!

[felixthelogchopper]

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.

 

On the plus side, he was immune from Scurvy.

[peatff]

I've been putting lemon juice on my number plates and I haven't got a speeding ticket so it must work