Dunning Kruger Effect
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- chalk0
Gotta love the internet. Seth Godin blogs about this and suddenly it's all the rage the last few months.
- vaxorcist0
well, it does explain the start of the Iraq War...
- SteveJobs0
I'm a big believer in Occam's Razor
- IRNlun60
I'm a big believer in Hanlon's Razor, and probably guilty of it myself on many occasions.
- ItTango0
This post is actually in reference to a friend who's on a branding project for a Chicago hospital. They've been working with a firm for the last 90 days that has delivered nothing useful. She admits that she realized during the first week that this firm just didn't get it, but because no one else said anything, and these guys were "pros", she kept silent.
A few thousand bucks into the fireplace... she blames herself for having no spine. I shared this with her and rolled her a fatty.
- tasty0
I'm starting with the man in the mirror
-Michael Jackson
- CALLES0
*adds this to resume in other of getting "ahead"
- drgz0
Congratulations, you found a way to self-assert yourself
- jaylarson0
Dunning Kruger, meet the Peter Principle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet…You two should get along just fine.
- "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."jaylarson
- CALLES0
sharing this!
- fiver0
i find it interesting... thanks.
- georgesIII0
And...??
I'm waiting for your point
- Frosty_spl0
Is this proportional to penis size?
- ItTango
This explains a lot.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dun…excerpt...
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the perverse situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence: because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. "Thus, 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."