I may be way late to the party on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, but a search on here only brough up one reference. A friend of mine explained it to me last night and it at least helped me understand why very basic GCA strategies are just a foreign language to people at my course that are pushing back on restoration of a 95 year old track. Anyone out there know some of these people? I'm sure the Architect's out there never have to deal with this
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This is a link to a nice summary:
http://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/lessons-from-dunning-kruger/ (If you clink on "in a recent article" inside that summary it will take you to David Dunning's full article...lengthy but a good read)
A few of my favorite quotes from this:
“…incompetent people do not recognize—scratch that, cannot recognize—just how incompetent they are,”
“What’s curious is that, in many cases, incompetence does not leave people disoriented, perplexed, or cautious. Instead, the incompetent are often blessed with an inappropriate confidence, buoyed by something that feels to them like knowledge.”
From Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect):
Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:
1.fail to recognize their own lack of skill;
2.fail to recognize genuine skill in others;
3.fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;
4.recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they are exposed to training for that skill.