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Tommo
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posted June 19, 2002 03:33 PM |
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Incompetents have an excuse.
Empirical evidence suggests that incompetent individuals have more difficulty recognizing their true level of ability than do more competent individuals and that a lack of metacognitive skills may underlie this deficiency. Thus, we made four specific predictions about the links between competence, metacognitive ability, and inflated self-assessment.
Prediction 1. Incompetent individuals, compared with their more competent peers, will dramatically overestimate their ability and performance relative to objective criteria.
Prediction 2. Incompetent individuals will suffer from deficient metacognitive skills, in that they will be less able than their more competent peers to recognize competence when they see itbe it their own or anyone else's.
Prediction 3. Incompetent individuals will be less able than their more competent peers to gain insight into their true level of performance by means of social comparison information. In particular, because of their difficulty recognizing competence in others, incompetent individuals will be unable to use information about the choices and performances of others to form more accurate impressions of their own ability.
Prediction 4. The incompetent can gain insight about their shortcomings, but this comes (paradoxically) by making them more competent, thus providing them the metacognitive skills necessary to be able to realize that they have performed poorly.
Therefore incompetents do not recognise that they are fools.
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Maniac
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posted June 19, 2002 06:26 PM |
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Edited By: Romana on 9 Aug 2002
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Ummmmmmm...whaaaaaaaat????
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bjorn190
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posted August 09, 2002 05:45 PM |
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Quote:
Therefore incompetents do not recognise that they are fools.
BUT..
If they donīt recognize that they are fools, it is only the more competent that think so. And there is a chance that we are wrong, and they are not fools. After all, they donīt think they are.
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Dingo
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posted August 21, 2004 03:35 AM |
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Where is a dictionary when you need one?
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Trogdor
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Words in a custom title
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posted August 21, 2004 12:48 PM |
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So very true. Proof that Tasmanians can swim, and that some people need a dictionary to find the meaning of life.
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