This Paper Explains A Lot
By Daniel Miessler on October 15th, 2005: Tagged as Culture | Sociology
A fellow blogger by the name of Kasia pointed out an interesting paper called Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. I thought this was particularly good:
“It is one of the essential features of such incompetence that the person so afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is incompetent. To have such knowledge would already be to remedy a good portion of the offense.”
Do you work with someone like this? Most of us do, and it’s nice to know there’s a paper about it.