http://netvouz.com/PROJECTCONSULT/tag/sie?feed=rss PROJECTCONSULT's bookmarks tagged "sie" on Netvouz http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/revisiting-why-incompetents-think-theyre-awesome/ Revisiting why incompetents think they're awesome | Dunning-Kruger study today: The uninformed aren't as doomed as the Web suggests | Chris Lee | May 25th, 2012 | In 1999 a pair of researchers published a paper called "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (PDF)." David Dunning and Justin Kruger (both at Cornell University's Department of Psychology at the time) conducted a series of four studies showing that, in certain cases, people who are very bad at something think they are actually pretty good. They showed that to assess your own expertise at something, you need to have a certain amount of expertise already. PROJECTCONSULT Wed, 30 May 2012 08:57:38 GMT