On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 13:41:54 +0000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:55:20 +0000, over wrote: > >> I can understand people thinking I'm full of beans. > > Oh no, not full of beans. Full of something, but not beans. > > Everything you have written about assembly, machine code, compilers, > Linux, Python and so forth has been a confused mish-mash of half-truths, > distortions, vaguely correct factoids and complete nonsense. > > I'm starting to wonder if it is possible for somebody to be > simultaneously so self-assured and so ignorant, or if we're being trolled.
I recently learned that this is called the Dunning-Kruger effect: The Dunning-Kruger effect is the phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge. […] The phenomenon was demonstrated in a series of experiments performed by Justin Kruger and David Dunning, then both of Cornell University. Their results were published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology in December 1999. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect See, there's almost always a rational explanation. ;-) Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
