Massimo
@Rainmaker1973
The least competent people are often the most confident. This is known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where people with limited skill or knowledge in a particular area dramatically overestimate their own abilities. The reason is simple yet paradoxical: the same skills needed to do something well are also the skills needed to accurately judge how well you’re doing it. Without that self-awareness, incompetent individuals remain blissfully unaware of their shortcomings — and become overly confident as a result.
As Charles Darwin noted: “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” On the flip side, truly skilled people often fall into the opposite trap. Because a task feels easy to them, they assume it must be easy for everyone else. As a result, experts tend to underestimate their own abilities relative to others, while the least competent loudly overestimate theirs.
This creates a striking gap: the people who know the least are often the most sure of themselves, while the most competent frequently doubt their own superiority.
About michelleclarke2015
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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