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brudgers on June 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Revisiting why incompetents think they’re awesome

It's turtles all the way down. Incompetence includes over-estimating our ability to evaluate experts (e.g. acting upon or ignoring legal advice from web forums).

mistercow on June 4, 2012 [–]

Perhaps, but is that something that that Dunning and Kruger (or anyone, for that matter) has actually demonstrated?

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