In the light of the magnificent polarisation between belief and science as evidenced elsewhere in this hallowed portal, here is a nice recursive posting. Infer as you like. Some interesting reading which may well explain technically the reason for the epidemic incompetence and mismanagement in the running of ?South Africa Inc?
And a quote:
"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.?
The quote above comes from the philosopher Bertrand Russell
?The Dunning?Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude.?
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why The Incompetent Don?t Know They?re Incompetent:
http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/06/the-dunning-kruger-effect-why-the-incompetent-dont-know-theyre-incompetent.php
When Ignorance Begets Confidence: The Classic Dunning-Kruger:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolved-primate/201006/when-ignorance-begets-confidence-the-classic-dunning-kruger-effect
Revisiting why incompetents think they?re awesome:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/revisiting-why-incompetents-think-theyre-awesome/
Background stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
In other words, in some quarters this could be sarcastically construed as: "Stupid people are so stupid that they don't know they are stupid"...
And a quote:
"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.?
The quote above comes from the philosopher Bertrand Russell
?The Dunning?Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude.?
The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why The Incompetent Don?t Know They?re Incompetent:
http://www.spring.org.uk/2012/06/the-dunning-kruger-effect-why-the-incompetent-dont-know-theyre-incompetent.php
When Ignorance Begets Confidence: The Classic Dunning-Kruger:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/evolved-primate/201006/when-ignorance-begets-confidence-the-classic-dunning-kruger-effect
Revisiting why incompetents think they?re awesome:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2012/05/revisiting-why-incompetents-think-theyre-awesome/
Background stuff:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
In other words, in some quarters this could be sarcastically construed as: "Stupid people are so stupid that they don't know they are stupid"...
