[meteorite-list] The Dunning-Kruger effect

From: Sterling K. Webb <sterling_k_webb_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2016 20:59:24 -0500
Message-ID: <433323.67852.bm_at_smtp111.sbc.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>

List, Paul,

The opposite of the Dunning-
Kruger Effect is this:

"When the poet Paul Valery
once asked Albert Einstein if
he kept a notebook to record
his ideas, Einstein looked at
him with mild but genuine
surprise. "Oh, that's not
necessary," he replied . "It's
so seldom I have one."
                                 ? Bill Bryson,
A Short History of Nearly Everything


Sterling K. Webb
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The Dunning-Kruger effect is sometimes encountered in discussing meteorites
on this list.

Dunning-Kruger effect
https://goo.gl/J3fcrz and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

Dunning, D., K. Johnson, J. Ehrlinger and J. Kruger, 2003, Why People Fail
to Recognize Their Own Incompetence. Current Directions in Psychological
Science. vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 83-87.
http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/12/3/83.abstract
and https://goo.gl/BEffpS

Kruger, J., and D. Dunning, 1999, Unskilled and unaware of it: how
difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-
assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology vol. 77, no.6, pp.
1121-1134.
https://goo.gl/YWxCIU and https://goo.gl/sJMp8a

Yours,

Paul H.

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