Re: Here's an equation Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident

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Subject	Re: Here's an equation Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident
Date	2019-01-29 05:56 -0700
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OR,  Confidence=1/knowledge
"David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> wrote in message 
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> For the particular attention of 'nospam'
> ****************************************
>
> You may have witnessed this scene at work, while socializing with friends 
> or over a holiday dinner with extended family: Someone who has very little 
> knowledge in a subject claims to know a lot. That person might even boast 
> about being an expert.
>
> This phenomenon has a name: the Dunning-Kruger effect. It's not a disease, 
> syndrome or mental illness; it is present in everybody to some extent, and 
> it's been around as long as human cognition, though only recently has it 
> been studied and documented in social psychology.
>
> In their 1999 paper, published in the Journal of Personality and Social 
> Psychology, David Dunning and Justin Kruger put data to what has been 
> known by philosophers since Socrates, who supposedly said something along 
> the lines of "the only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing."
>
> Charles Darwin followed that up in 1871 with "ignorance more frequently 
> begets confidence than does knowledge."
>
> Put simply, incompetent people think they know more than they really do, 
> and they tend to be more boastful about it.
>
> https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-why-incompetent-people-often-seem-so-confident?
>
> -- 
> David B.

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Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-13 17:52 +0000
  Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident Ed Norton <norton@nowhere.com> - 2019-01-13 13:42 -0500
    Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident MikeS <MikeS@fred.com> - 2019-01-13 19:48 +0000
    Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-13 19:52 +0000
      Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident Alan Baker <nunya@ness.biz> - 2019-01-13 11:55 -0800
    Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-13 22:04 +0000
      Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-13 22:19 +0000
        Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-13 22:33 +0000
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          Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-13 23:23 +0000
            Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-13 18:27 -0500
              Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-13 23:32 +0000
            Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-14 02:12 +0000
              Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident "David B." <"David B"@nomail.afraid.org> - 2019-01-14 07:46 +0000
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                Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-15 00:28 +0000
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                Re: Here's The Scientific Reason Incompetent People Are Often So Confident Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-15 15:50 +0000
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