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Post by huw on Sept 17, 2011 15:16:50 GMT 10
Thank you, I'm glad you liked the paper. But where did you come across it?
I agree that the Dunning-Kruger effect is relevant.
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 17, 2011 15:50:28 GMT 10
Thank you, I'm glad you liked the paper. But where did you come across it? I agree that the Dunning-Kruger effect is relevant. When you applied I thought your name rung a bell and, as I was waiting for your reply to my routine, initial email, I recalled having read the paper, and so Googled it under your name (I forget on which blog or forum I first found a link to it).
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Post by Smithee on Sept 18, 2011 11:44:34 GMT 10
Dunning & Kruger are running amok over on Maat's loony-tunes forum.
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 4, 2011 6:18:08 GMT 10
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers
Janis Joplin (Died this day 1970)
[The alternative being blind faith in matters dubious]
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 8, 2012 13:21:00 GMT 10
Progress is a possibility for the animal: it can be broken in, tamed and trained; but it is not a possibility for the fool, because the fool thinks he has nothing to learn. It is his place to dictate to others and put them right, and so it is impossible to reason with him. He will laugh you to scorn in saying that what he does not under- stand is not a meaningful proposition. 'Why don't I understand it, then?', he asks you, with marvelous impudence. To tell him it is because he is a fool would only be taken as an insult, so there is nothing you can say in reply. Everybody else sees it quite clearly, but he will never realize it. Here then, at the outset, is a potent secret which is inaccessible to the majority of people; a secret which they will never guess and which it would be useless to tell them: the secret of their own stupidity
Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse Louis Constant) (Born this day 1810)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 22, 2012 5:41:41 GMT 10
The more one learns, the more he understands his ignorance
Louis L'Amour (Born this day 1908)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 23, 2012 5:50:27 GMT 10
One of the chief features of incompetence was an inability to see it in oneself
Kim Stanley Robinson (Born this day 1952)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2013 5:42:27 GMT 10
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal
William Allen White (Died this day 1944)
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Post by Tamrin on Mar 15, 2013 5:39:48 GMT 10
"It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.” - Murray N. Rothbard.
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 11, 2013 7:01:32 GMT 10
The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Died this day 2007)
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