Published Feb 5, 2008
Valerie Salva, BSN, RN
1,793 Posts
Incompetent People Really Have No Clue,
Studies Find
They're blind to own failings, others' skills
One reason that the ignorant also tend to be the blissfully self-assured, the researchers believe, is that the skills required for competence often are the same skills necessary to recognize competence.
The incompetent, therefore, suffer doubly, they suggested in a paper appearing in the December issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. ``Not only do they reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it,'' wrote Kruger, now an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, and Dunning
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/01/18/MN73840.DTL
Simplepleasures
1,355 Posts
Whoa Valerie, after reading this article and not knowing about the earlobe thingy in the dying, I might be one of the "incompetants".
Not:specs:
After reading this article, I started thinking maybe I'm incompetent but I don't know it!
Not:specs:After reading this article, I started thinking maybe I'm incompetent but I don't know it!
Could be!:flmngmd: (inflammation smiley)
Spidey's mom, ADN, BSN, RN
11,305 Posts
What earlobe thingy?
steph
What earlobe thingy? steph
TheCommuter, BSN, RN
102 Articles; 27,612 Posts
Here's the old saying: "You don't know what you don't know."
Here's another saying: "Ignorance is bliss."
everthesame, LPN, LVN
188 Posts
Droopy earlobe thread
https://allnurses.com/forums/f22/ear-changes-dying-pt-279832.html
locolorenzo22, BSN, RN
2,396 Posts
Professor plum in the hospital with the full bedpan of urine.....oh wait....wrong kinda clue....
:rotfl:
BlueRidgeHomeRN
829 Posts
professor plum in the hospital with the full bedpan of urine.....oh wait....wrong kinda clue....
:rotfl: thanks--best laugh all week!