There are many incompetent people in the world. Dr. David A. Dunning is haunted by the fear that he might be one of them.
Dunning, a professor of psychology at Cornell, worries about this because, according to his research, most incompetent people do not know that they are incompetent.
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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.
I would like to take this moment to let you know that I am absolutely appaling at pretty much everything, and getting worse every day.
Incompetent People Really Have No Clue, Studies Find / They’re blind to own failings, others’ skills