Dunning-Kruger Effect

Aug 21, 2010 23 Replies

No-one has ever needed to ask me how old my children are.

For my sins I have in the past worked in the IT industry.

I did note that the more a person knew the more likely they were to say "I'm not really sure" when asked a question. The ones who immediately knew the answer usually didn't.

Sadly, marketing and project management never seemed to cotton on to this.

Cheers

Dave R

In message , David WE Roberts writes

Very much noticed that when you ask a foreigner if they speak english

If they say "a little", you know that they are more or less fluent

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