Ignorance of Your Ignorance is No Excuse

Check out this column* by David Dunning in the 5 May issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education:

Take as one example work we have done in my laboratory on the plight of
the incompetent. In many intellectual and social domains, such people
suffer a double curse. First, because they lack knowledge and skill,
they make many mistakes. And second, because of those same deficits,
they cannot recognize the inferiority of their decisions and the
superiority of the decisions made by others — so they do not even
realize that they should seek advice before acting.

Peer assessments and distributed training help.

* link expires 8 May.

Tip from Jim Lackey at UTSA.