Dunning–Kruger effect

Posted by technology on Friday May 04, 2012 @06:00AM
from the en.wikipedia.org dept.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

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Re:Dunning–Kruger effect by pinchyfingers on Friday May 04, 2012 @07:15AM (#3927889)

I don't want to spoil the party, but I feel like we've discussed this before:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1063287 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2540460 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1498136 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3018462 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2504971 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1448788 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1300335 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2674154

and so on...

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Re:Dunning–Kruger effect by gregbair on Friday May 04, 2012 @07:16AM (#3927893)

I've always observed that those "unskilled" (entry-level) developers that are humble and know that they don't know much learn much better than the cocky, "I've been programming for two years in VB and I'm a programming expert!" kind.

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Re:Dunning–Kruger effect by 18cc on Friday May 04, 2012 @09:34AM (#3928279)

and?

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Re:Dunning–Kruger effect by batista on Friday May 04, 2012 @06:33AM (#3927812)

Also known as the functional programmer snob effect.

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