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Incompetent People Clueless

Incompetent People Really Have No Clue:

"People who do things badly, Dunning has found in studies conducted with a graduate student, Justin Kruger, are usually supremely confident of their abilities -- more confident, in fact, than people who do things well.

One reason that the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured, the researchers believe, is that the skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence.

The incompetent, therefore, suffer doubly"

I know someone like this. Incompetent to the core, but thinks she is spectacular. And we all suffer for it.

posted by Jim VAT @ 6:02 PM