Just how smart are Trump supporters?

 I was watching a program about conspiracy theories among Trump supporters and all of them claimed to have inside knowledge and/or proof of even the most outrageous ideas floating around on the Internet.

The latest plot is the QAnon  theory and it goes something like this:

QAnon is a far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles running a global child sex-trafficking ring is plotting against President Donald Trump, who is battling them, leading to a 'day of reckoning' involving the mass arrest of journalists and politicians.

The theory began with an October 2017 post on the anonymous imageboard 4chan by "Q", who was presumably an American individual, but probably became a group of people. 

Q claimed to have access to classified information involving the Trump administration and its opponents in the United States. 

NBC News found that three people took the original Q post and expanded it across multiple media platforms to build internet followings for profit. 

QAnon was preceded by several similar anonymous 4chan posters, such as FBIAnon, HLIAnon (High-Level Insider), CIAAnon, and WH Insider Anon.

Apparently everyone who subscribes to the QAnon theory thinks they are way smarter than everyone else... and this proves the Dunning-Kruger effect:  

In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task (or low intelligence) overestimate their ability.

It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.

Meanwhile, smart people such as you and I, [sic] are also affected by this supposition in the following way:

As described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the bias results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.

So there ya have it kids... if you're dumb (Trump supporters) you're dumber than you think... and if you're smart... you're smarter than you think! 

The way I see it anyway!