From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 19:41:58 MDT
Robin Hanson wrote:
> Also, I think there tends to be a positive correlation between people who
> know things and people who think they know things. And it is a bad sign
> about an idea if the people who know things tend to be the people
> who don't like it.
There was a recent study that found that most people who DON'T know a
subject will rate themselves as expert in it. Although there was some
correlation with people who really knew the subject from high to low levels
of competence, those with no competence rated themselves as experts!
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