[dennisw]

Entire article is worth reading

[dalebert]

ping

[cripplecreek]

I’ve always believed that some self doubt is a good thing as long as it doesn’t discourage trying.

[ThomasThomas]

The authors of this article seem pretty confident of themselves.

[MtnClimber]

Dear Leader Zero thinks more government spending on mostly stupid stuff and huge gubermint teams to oversee that the stupidity is properly applied will achieve utopia. It might, but the person overseeing our utopia is likely Alinsky’s hero satan.

[BipolarBob]

I’m going to try that lemon juice trick. I think maybe either he didn’t rub it all over his face or he didn’t say the magic words. Invisibility is one of my most prized assets.

[driftless2]

A corollary of this, speaking as an ex-grade school basketball coach, are people who think their own kids or their kid’s teams were much better than anyone elses. I have a friend who not only overestimated his own athletic ability, he overestimated his son’s ability. Not that he or his son were poor athletes, in fact they were both very good. But they were simply not as good as my friend thought they were. Probably a very common and natural feeling.

[denydenydeny]

Everyone has encountered obliviously incompetent managers who make life miserable for their underlings because they suffer from the illusion of confidence.

Oh yes.

[ClearCase_guy]

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

-- Francis Bacon

[BwanaNdege]

Back in the mid-1980’s, Alice Lakwena, leader of the LRA rebel group in Uganda, told her followers they would be bullet-proof & invincible after rubbing their bodies with her magic oil. Thus protected they proceeded to attack Ugandan army outposts, armed mostly with sticks & stones.

Crazy, you say? Yep, but the situation was complicated by the fact that not only did the LRA rebels believe that they were protected by the magic oil, the Ugandan army had heard the story and THEY believed it also!

So, rebels with sticks & stones routed trained soldiers armed with AK-47s and more.

Crazy world!

[VanShuyten]

I read the research paper mentioned in the article, "Unskilled and Unaware of It," by Kruger and Dunning and it was very good in explaining why average students think they should get better scores. It was one of those Lake Wobegon stories where all of the kids were above average. It was only after the students had improved their skills a bit and compared their new scores with the older score that they started to understand how poor they were in the first place. A simple example was that students who scored in the 12th percentile actually thought they were in the 60th percentile.

It also showed that the very best students underestimated their abilities and almost always thought that they could have done better.

[anniegetyourgun]

I, on the other hand, am invincible.

[Inyo-Mono]

Skillfully bookmarked.

[festusbanjo]

One of the classic hallmarks of a liberal is someone who thinks that they are not only smarter than they really are, but they are thoroughly convinced that they are indisputedly smarter than you are as well.

[Recovering_Democrat]

THE MOST OBVIOUS CASE IN POINT!

[BipolarBob]

I have not only read this article but I have comprehended on a level that few of you could ever understand. This article really spoke to me. I know I may have rambled some in the past, but I'm over that. I have watched the movie "The Men Who Stare At Goats" over and over repeatedly until I became a Jedi mind master. Now I see clearly that I have been underestimating myself and my abilities. There is nothing I cannot achieve once I am resolute in my efforts.

[GOP Poet]

bookmark

[phockthis]

OK...

[Mike Darancette]

Studies show those convicted of crimes are, on average, less intelligent than non-criminals.

Smart ones don't get convicted. QED.

[MediaMole]

I supervised a guy with vast quantities of unjustifiable self-esteem. He was arrogant, untrainable, a chronic liar and a thief. He was and incompetent employee and an even worse thief.

Ten years after I fired him for theft, I saw him working behind the counter at McDonalds. No doubt, he thinks he’s the best employee McDonalds has ever had.