Re: [silk] We Are All Confident Idiots

2014-11-03 Thread Dave Long
While I agree that we're fortunate that society is set up so that things more or less work despite widespread ignorance and overconfidence ("I know I'm a million times as humble as thou art", Peter Principle, etc.) there's a different issue which (at least my skimming of) the article didn't

Re: [silk] We Are All Confident Idiots

2014-11-01 Thread Shenoy N
On 1 November 2014 03:34, Thaths wrote: > From Dunning of Dunning-Kruger fame > > http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/confident-idiots-92793/ > > What a terrific read! Thanks for sharing -- Narendra Shenoy http://narendrashenoy.blogspot.com

[silk] We Are All Confident Idiots

2014-11-01 Thread Thaths
>From Dunning of Dunning-Kruger fame http://www.psmag.com/navigation/health-and-behavior/confident-idiots-92793/ The trouble with ignorance is that it feels so much like expertise. A leading researcher on the psychology of human wrongness sets us straight. • Last March, during the enormous South