Dumb People Quotes
Reacting to criticism of the Federal Arts Project:
She was writing regarding the first use of television in a presidential campaign and the first time the public had ever been exposed to spot political ads. The practice, innovated in the Eisenhower campaign of 1952, was thought of as playing to the lowest element of the electorate’s psyche—selling politicians as if they were breakfast cereal or soap flakes.
The research to which she referred is known as the “Dunning-Kruger Effect”. See Dunning: Quotation 644022.