Monday, June 21, 2010

The Dunning-Kruger Effect.

Back in 1999, two Pittsburgh-area psychologists gave their names to the thesis that the incompetent are too incompetent to recognize their own incompetence. It's called the "Dunning-Kruger Effect" — and it's described this way, "our incompetence masks our ability to recognize our incompetence."

I hope I'm getting that right. I might not be. But I'd never know.