Cornell study shows the more incompetent you actually are, the more competent you think you are.
Maybe this should go in P&R LORFSRLFOROFLS.
So the Peter Principle now has been scientifically proven?
Not me. I perfectly aware of how incompetent I am.
FYI, I’m usually a very happy person.
Does anyone else smell gas?
Thanks Bill,
I have a job interview in two hours. Way to guild confidence.
Let’s hope there isn’t a typing test…
Well done! I nearly wet myself!
The Arnold Rimmer Theorem?
I call it self-confidence.
Does this start to explain the psychology of tone-deaf American Idol contestants?
Also, I suppose the inverse isn’t true?
Whateva’, Cornell scientists! You don’ know me! I do what I want, you don’ know me!
Nearly 7-year-old article, but as true now as the day it was written.
Wrong Rimmer.
No actually, according to the study, it is.
Heh.
I should now edit my post to make you look silly… of course I’d have to bribe King Lupid to edit his too.
Way to dig up the nearly 7 year old article, for a study published in 1999 :P
For those interested, the study can be read here: http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
Everyone thinks they are an above average driver.
Too true, and speaking as an above average driver I’m mighty pissed off by some of the dunderheads I see on the road.
This explains Many Things.
I could swear I read about this a year ago or so, and even started a topic on it, but I don’t feel like searching it. Anyway, the research is very interesting. Of course, it doesn’t actually imply the opposite, that thinking you are competent means you are incompetent. That conclusion would be silly. But to no one’s surprise, incompetent people don’t realize they are incompetent!