IP: Among the Inept, Researchers Discover, Ignorance Is Bliss

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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Among the Inept, Researchers Discover, Ignorance Is Bliss

By ERICA GOODE
The New York Times

There are many incompetent people in the world. Dr. David A. Dunning is
haunted
by the fear he might be one of them.

Dr. Dunning, a professor of psychology at Cornell, worries about this
because,
according to his research, most incompetent people do not know that they are
incompetent.

On the contrary. People who do things badly, Dr. Dunning has found in
studies
conducted with a graduate student, Justin Kruger, are usually supremely
confident of their abilities -- more confident, in fact, than people who do
things well.

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