Posted on 10/18/2017 2:37:01 AM PDT by Fhios
In my current job, I'm constantly trying to figure out when the next thing I don't know that I don't know is going to bite me in the butt and cause me to have to rework my code. I've been working on a certain project for nearly a year, and still find out things that people have neglected to tell me, or are just considered tribal knowledge and everyone assumes you just "know", or is buried in the code (that I have to replicate in another language). It's not malicious, it's just how it is here, but it's incredibly frustrating.
So far the closest word I've found that sort of describes this situation is agnotology (the study of culturally induced ignorance, coined in 1995), but that's not exactly it.
(Excerpt) Read more at english.stackexchange.com ...
Agnotology doesn't ring a bell. It was more along the lines of Cognitive Dissonance -- which doesn't fit what I want to describe. Agnosia, the medical concept isn't' it either.
Alzheimer’s
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”
Donald Rumsfeld
The “unknown knowns” things that we don’t know we know!
Probably not what you want, but a useful term (this from Wikipedia):
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude.
That describes a lot of people I know, people who have never outgrown their early teen years.
Why are you expending energy to categorize levels of ignorance or assign blame for it? All of the ignorance is yours and yours alone. The best you can hope for is that the same deficit won’t bite you twice...in the same place.
Liberalism.
Robert Ringer once explained The Gumption Trap.
Don’t let the code get the best of you. Become its master!
(And a healthy dose of “it’s not my Chevy, hand me he hammer” helps too.)
Let me know when you find it...
We may need to make up a new word- I experience the EXACT SAME THING on a daily basis.
I’ve learned to live with it and my usual answer is that “I can’t program what I don’t know” and push it back on them.
I will never EVER take the blame for failing to produce software that didn’t do what they imagined- but did’t tell me.
We can’t do this by ESP.
I want to remember the term for educational and editorial reasons, not personal experience reasons.
Even on your understanding, I still question the validity of your answer since it gives advice where none was asked for.
This is the correct line of thinking. But can it be reduced to a single two word nomenclature such as Cognitive Dissonance?
You set me on the path to discovery. It’s Cognitive Bias as used in: [barf alert] ... skim real fast and don’t focus on their usage.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-macaray/the-dunningkruger-effect_b_4476166.html.
I needed the phrase to explain to my son vis-a-vis gambling in general, poker to be specific.
If you can quantify it, then we’ll have to drag out six sigma for software again.
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