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Re:4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity) by swombat on Friday January 09, 2009 @08:00AM (#426524)
This article, unfortunately, falls in the top right quadrant.

The insights are fairly dull and overly simplistic. The conclusions are not all that useful.

Re:4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity) by ibsulon on Friday January 09, 2009 @01:29PM (#426921)
It reminds me of many of the insights I had on life at 18. :)
Re:4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity) by edw519 on Friday January 09, 2009 @10:16AM (#426642)
You used a tool developed in the top right quadrant to describe an article that belongs in the top right quadrant.

Ouch. I think you just hashed me into the top left quadrant.

Re:4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity) by swombat on Friday January 09, 2009 @10:30AM (#426661)
Well, I think it's only fair to apply the article to itself ;-)

As for you, you are not the author of this article, so I presume there is no good reason to force-fit you into its simplistic model.

Re:4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity) by pierrefar on Friday January 09, 2009 @09:54AM (#426625)
A 2x2 matrix - must be a consultant.
Re:4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity) by quantumhobbit on Friday January 09, 2009 @09:49AM (#426619)
"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare from "As You Like It"
Re:4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity) by timf on Friday January 09, 2009 @11:19AM (#426721)
(predated famously by Plato)
Re:4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity) by sgupta on Friday January 09, 2009 @06:28PM (#427295)
Reminds me of the Dunning-Kruger effect:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

"Across four studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd."

Re:4 Types of Person (a guide to stupidity) by ars on Friday January 09, 2009 @03:50PM (#427090)
You don't know anything (about a subject) until you know what you don't know.