Better Living Through Thinking

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments

Mon, 16 Jun 2003

Justin Kruger and David Dunning

<http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf>

Finally, Study 3 showed that incompetent individuals may be unable to take full advantage of one particular kind of feedback: social comparison. One of the ways people gain insight into their own competence is by watching the behavior of others ( Festinger, 1954 ; Gilbert, Giesler & Morris, 1995 ). In a perfect world, everyone could ...

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Panama Palindrome

Thu, 25 Oct 2001

A man, a plan, a canal; Panama! --unknown

A man, a plan, a cat, a canal; Panama! --Jim Saxe

A man, a plan, a cat, a ham, a yak, a yam, a hat, a canal--Panama! --Guy Jacobson

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Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam

Wed, 12 Apr 2000

Well there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; bacon
and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and
spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, spam, spam, egg
and spam; spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam,
spam and spam; or lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce
garnished with truffle pate', brandy and a fried egg on top of spam.
-- Monty Python's Flying Circus