Humans prefer cockiness to expertise

Re:Humans prefer cockiness to expertise by bombarolo on Friday June 12, 2009 @11:21AM (#654771)

These two are inversely proportional in most cases.

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Re:Humans prefer cockiness to expertise by maneesh on Friday June 12, 2009 @11:29AM (#654787)

I definitely disagree w/ that, there are a lot of cocky arrogant people who are also extremely smart too. It's just about finding the balance.

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Re:Humans prefer cockiness to expertise by brlewis on Friday June 12, 2009 @11:44PM (#655777)

I think there are a lot of reasonably smart cocky/arrogant people. I think there are hardly any extremely smart ones. But there are plenty of ones that people think are extremely smart, due to the phenomenon this article describes.

Arrogance hinders people from getting smarter.

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