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Ok, I read it, but, I don't comprehend it, or, what your implications are toward me via the article.
Give it to me straight, Cheeks.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence: because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. "Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[2]
The Dunning–Kruger effect was put forward by Justin Kruger and David Dunning. Similar notions have been expressed – albeit less scientifically – for some time. Dunning and Kruger themselves quote Charles Darwin ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge")[3] and Bertrand Russell ("One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision."[4][5]). W.B. Yeats put it concisely thus: "The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity." The Dunning–Kruger effect is not, however, concerned narrowly with high-order cognitive skills (much less their application in the political realm during a particular era, which is what Russell was talking about.[6]) Nor is it specifically limited to the observation that ignorance of a topic is conducive to overconfident assertions about it, which is what Darwin was saying.[7] Indeed, Dunning et al. cite a study saying that 94% of college professors rank their work as "above average" (relative to their peers), to underscore that the highly intelligent and informed are hardly exempt.[4] Rather, the effect is about paradoxical defects in perception of skill, in oneself and others, regardless of the particular skill and its intellectual demands, whether it is chess, playing golf[8] or driving a car.[4]
Ok, I read it, but, I don't comprehend it, or, what your implications are toward me via the article.
Give it to me straight, Cheeks.
didn't think you'd pick up on it
Good question. The wnba is a total waste.
At least you're laughing now. It beats ya calling me everything but a white man.
tee, hee.
That article has a Charles Darwin quote..mouse will be here shortly.
Cubby, living in blissful ignorance
Completely nude.
flaccid weiner not withstanding
Why should some of the best female athletes IN THE WORLD have to suffer because of the failures of the NBA?
They don't, the good ones like Taurasi make most of their money in Europe.
I think daddy just threw a chair after reading this thread...
Cialis in abeyance.
at DoK's sig.
not sure what Taurasi makes now due to their team owner/mobster getting shot and killed this year, but I know last season she was making around $1 million in Russia .... compared to $110,000 in the U.S.
That girl^is not good, BR. Her ties are fake. That's two failures in-a-row, daddy-O. I'm losing confidence in ya, tights.
Why are you defending criminals?
Charles Darwin is a racist!
Nice sig brah.
Exact-a-mundo.Why are you defending criminals?
i'm not, just pointin out hypocrisy whenever i see it. illegals and whites like cubby are both equally harmful to the american societyWhy are you defending criminals?
Them damn Viets!
What did DoK/Kerr get banned for this time?
Kori doesn't like jews
sons the WNBA. ing clam-licking joke of a league. their sense of en lement is outrageous .... its been all down hill ever since we allowed women to vote. now we have to foot the bill for lesbians to play basketball.
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