Thursday, November 20, 2003

The Incompetent and the Unaware

Yahoo! Mail - tinmanxi@yahoo.com: "people who lack skill in a particular domain of human endeavor suffer under a dual burden. First, they lack the skill. More important, because they lack the skill, they lack the capacity to perceive that they lack the skill, which leads them to conclude that they don't. That and a recent British survey indicating that 1 in 3 Britons believe George Bush is stupid (and a threat to world peace, but that's out of scope here), caused a glimmer of synthesis and insight on my part. Anyway, here's the study:

http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html "

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