Wednesday, February 14, 2007

To Give One Pause, or not

Today or tonight, (when you wake at three and start working what is it?) Point being I am once again tackling the organization of my office and the many bits of paper that needs to be tossed, considered, filed, or acted upon, in my life an impossible, sisyphean task,

So I run across this little scrap of paper that defies classification, really it is just too hard too small to keep track of or file, but very interesting, as follows:

Ignorance is bliss

Cornell University researchers, who wrote a paper entitled "Unskilled and Unaware of It," believe they're on solid ground here: They found that inept people tend to confident--even downright certain--that they are smart, funny, and in the right. The talented, on the other hand, underestimate their skill, assuming that if they can do it, anyone can. What's scary, says Prof. David Dunning, is that "we could easily make people at the top realize how much better they were. But the people at the bottom are intractable."

Check out the paper, mostly dry but skip to the charts and think.

1 comments:

cindy carr said...

happy valentine's day, darlin - i love reading your blogs - hopefully others will be able to take the time to respond to you from time to time - thank you for the card sent out so early this morning - i love you too!