SC - Response from author of horrible period foods article.

[Alderton, Philippa]

While going through this thread, I received a message from a rather
competant friend of mine, to wit:

>New research indicates that incompetent people tend not to
know they are incompetent. Not only that, they also tend to
be very confident that they know what they're doing -- even
more confident of their own competence than people who really
do know what they're doing. The New York Times reports that
Cornell University psychology professor David Dunning reached
those conclusions in a study he conducted with a graduate
student, and wrote about his findings in the December issue
of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The
researchers concluded that one reason incompetent people do
not know how much they do not know, is that the cognitive
skills required to be competent are also required for
recognizing actual competence. Researcher Justin Kruger told
the Times that the incompetence of incompetent people "robs
them of their ability to realize" they have a problem. It
also makes it difficult for incompetent folks to recognize
competence in others.

Shall we forward the article on to the poor benighted person?


Phlip

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Philippa Farrour
Caer Frig
Southeastern Ohio

"All things are poisons.  It is simply the dose that distinguishes between a
poison and a remedy." -Paracelsus

"Oats -- a grain which in England sustains the horses, and in
Scotland, the men." -- Johnson

"It was pleasant to me to find that 'oats,' the 'food of horses,' were
so much used as the food of the people in Johnson's own town." --
Boswell

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