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To: Solon who wrote (23194)

3/20/2012 6:28:46 AM

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"Dunning–Kruger effect " (does this sound familiar & ironic ? )
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which the unskilled suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled
to recognize their mistakes. [1] ;o)

Actual competence may weaken self-confidence, as competent individuals may falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. As Kruger and Dunning conclude, "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" (p. 1127). [2]

[ edit] Historical references Although the Dunning–Kruger effect was put forward in 1999, David Dunning and Justin Kruger have quoted:

Charles Darwin ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge")

Bertrand Russell ("One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision") [4]

as authors who have recognised the phenomenon

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