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To: elmatador who wrote (14679)	2/23/2007 2:40:09 AM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217620

I'll admit you're entertaining. . Incompetence is bliss February 23, 2007 -- The Age - Mebourne Australia -- blogs.theage.com.au Incompetent people are a fact of life. The problem is that boneheads don't even know that they're incompetent. Worse still, they think they're smart! In fact, they are more confident in their own abilities than people who are good. Those are the findings of a new study out of Cornell University in New York. The study, Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognising One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments, conducted experiments on hapless students. In one experiment, participants were asked to rank jokes according to their humor, and their rankings were then matched against those of professional comedians. In the second, they were asked to undergo a test of logic and then asked to rank their ability, then estimate how they would score against their classmates and finally, guess how many test questions they thought they got right. Then they had to something similar in the third experiment which assessed their ability in grammar. In all three experiments, they overestimated their ability. Even when they saw others do better, they continued to think there was nothing wrong. In the fourth experiment, the researchers found that short training sessions did improve their ability to recognise they had stuffed up. The researchers say that incompetent people are all thumbs because the skills that make you competent are the same skills that help you recognise competence. As a result, they think they're doing just fine. "We argue that when people are incompetent in the strategies they adopt to achieve success and satisfaction, they suffer a dual burden: Not only do they reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it." .