Professional athlete with famously controversial views:

1. says that his team needs to focus on their sport and avoid distractions in order to win
2. advertises a media appearance where he accuses a talks how host of pedophilia without reason or evidence

Thus spectacularly failing to follow his own advice in the space of about 30s.

They were wrong about that too

Eh its a meme at this point. Everyone knows to what you’re referring and recognises the shared experience of overconfident stupid people. Everyone educated on the topic understands that it’s a pop psychological misrepresentation of some very interesting work.

I notice it’s prevalent in populations that have had an excess of a certain type of “executive” education. Whether they are poorly educated or not… I leave to the reader.

It’s not a culture fair observation to be sure. Your Nobel prize winners I guess we’re old (hence part of a generation when smoking was more widespread). There are also countries where smoking is more or less universal.