johnmatthews2000 wrote: > --- In [email protected], Paul Herring <pauljherr...@...> wrote: >> students who suffer from the Dunning–Kruger effect start replying. > > For those who can't be bothered to look it up in Wikipedia (and it's > interesting stuff): > > The Dunning–Kruger effect is an example of cognitive bias in which "people > reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their > incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it". They > therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above > average. This leads to a perverse result where less competent people will > rate their own ability higher than relatively more competent people. It also > explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence because competent > individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. > "Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the > self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error > about others."
I admit, I had to look it up. Paul appears to have become bored with C++ programming and gave himself a psychology degree to better understand himself and what makes people tick :P Dr. Herring. It does have a nice ring to it. Although, if I were Paul and going for a name change, I'd probably skip the degree and just legally change the first name to "Red". I've known several programmers who suddenly up and decided to do other things - one even went to the Dark Side and became a lawyer. This has been your Dunning-Kruger moment of the day. If that doesn't bring a smile to your face, talk to Red, he's the local shrink. His fee is $300/hr. (My head is reeling from the awesomeness of that incredibly bad pun). -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/ ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, send a blank message to <mailto:[email protected]>.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[email protected] mailto:[email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
