Bankers make terrible leaders, but that's basically what the western world has ended up with: ultra-wealthy bean-counters determining the direction of the western industrial world. Not my experience. I've been managed by good and bad managers. The bad managers didn't know they were bad managers and the good managers might not have known they were good managers but they did their jobs well. Now I'm a manager who was promoted to a position of management because I was good at my job as an engineer -- which didn't teach me the skills I needed to be a good manager.
I'm still trying to figure that out. But I know how to hire a good engineer because I know how to do his job. It's used as an easy way out; to defer to the experts. I prefer to think that there are no experts. You can exhibit exceptional skill, but never be complete. Referring to someone as an expert smacks of anointing a title of sorts.
And once people get themselves a get a title Like a broken record, I'll end with a quote from Richard Feinman. He does have quotes that address the term experts directly, but I think this is more succinct and all-encompassing: "The easiest person to fool is yourself.
Roonski wrote: This idea might give a concrete reason why it's bad to give all students encouragement no matter how badly they do the modern trend of not giving grades so much as a 'tried hard, completed the course' : even if it makes them feel good, it makes them bad judges of their own abilities, and by extension bad judges of other people's abilities. To summarise: maybe telling all kids they're great leads to adults who can't distinguish good scientists and politicians.
PC awards in schools leads to climate change denial? I've worked in a few schools, outside the USA, by the way. Sometimes giving an award to a person who was not meeting outside objective standards at the top level, was to recognize that the person had made an effort and had made progress. The idea was to give some hope for success to people who rightly understood that they may not have an in-born talent. The school recognized their effort and diligence.
I don't recall that these awards were so numerous or influential that groups ended up being unable to recognize talent or that groups believed in something that went flat against the science. For that latter condition to develop, somebody had to push the contrary view, not just give a nod to a person who wasn't necessarily tip-top material. What's even worse, we're provided with a voting tool. Because what better way to aggregate incompetence than democracy. Would you care to explain that?
He is overblowing it to some extent since there are actual competent technocrats in the EU that generally do a good job. However there are poorly aligned incentives in Europe because it really is not a unified place. Germans are important politically so they can make the poor countries eat crow if they stumble like what happened to Greece, benefiting themselves and prolonging the agony in the poor countries which are better off poor and working cheaply for them from the German perspective.
Greece is incentivized to cheat on their application forms and these chickens came home to roost. Then it turned out the chickens were cockroaches in disguise with special perks that let them retire at ages even though the retirement system was designed at a life expectancy 20 years lower than todays 70's and 80's and 90's depending on your demographics. Naturally disguised cockroaches are super bad at collecting taxes and so doctors that own yachts get to pay no taxes.
It's a circus located on some prime real estate. Meanwhile Ireland has a scam going where they will let you completely avoid EU taxes in exchange for a small fee or tiny fraction of what you would have paid.
This is great for them but fucks over everyone else, on the planet. The dumb Brits are too retarded to see a good thing even as it is happening to them so they Brexited all over everyone's shoes. They could have renegotiated the refugee thing instead, but yeah. Some also say Europe chose poorly when they went with belt tightening instead of stimulus like America.
On the other hand the US economy is doing pretty well, especially compared to the EU. Except for UK which also tightened belts but then recovered rapidly till the whole fit of Brexit caused them to soil themselves. Why did they Brexit? The people that should have known better allowed the referendum.
The nuts in favor flat out lied. The day after everyone started to google what it would actually mean. Now the natural question is, am I an expert? Hell no. I am just some news junkie dude on the nets that reads a lot. Like really a lot, more thousands of books than I can count. I am however one of those mythical "informed" citizens that democracy relies on but is in short supply. Actual economists could be found to bolster or refute my various points.
The points are distillations of articles about some consensuses amongst such experts as identified by the authors. I would only trust myself as an expert on a subset of computer science or on general computing topics. Robbiegti wrote: Tegrid and Polecat, you both have a good point. Which will work during an economic upturn but during a downturn. That is the time when such a collaboration will show its weaknesses and its strengths.
And for which it was build. Now this downturn we can point to something that relates very much to this article, and i don't even need to say he's name. It may well be that those unsafe drivers are a hazard to us in more ways than just the obvious. Another paper, this one published in Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behavior , uses an analysis of months' worth of road rage-filled tweets to explore what kinds of situations cause people to forget that the right thing to do after being cut up in traffic is not "whip out the phone and tweet angrily.
Researcher Amanda Stephens and her colleagues searched a number of hashtags to narrow in on a set of almost 81, road rage tweets. The data provides an illuminating look inside the minds of some of our fellow drivers.
They have opinions about the people they share the road with, and they want to make those opinions known. The number one thing that enrages them? Other drivers are too slow. Complaints about other cars' speed made up more than half of all tweets that criticized a specific behavior, with fewer than one percent of those being complaints about people driving too fast.
General complaining about other drivers was the next largest category, followed by improper lane use or not merging properly. How about mountain climbing? Well, I've climbed the local hill a couple of times. I bet Kilimanjaro can't be much more difficult. A large pile of research on various groups of people, covering various skill sets, indicates that in the face of all evidence, humans are irredeemably optimistic about their own abilities.
That is, by itself, not such a bad thing. The ugly side shows up when we also realize that the norm must be maintained. Studies show that we do this by considering that everyone else is much worse.
Being clueless about your own abilities is one thing. Misjudging other's abilities is relatively more serious. You must login or create an account to comment. Skip to main content Aurich Lawson. Another election day in the US is rapidly approaching Tuesday, Nov. So for no reason in particular, we're resurfacing our close examination of the Dunning-Kruger effect from May 25, Chris Lee Chris writes for Ars Technica's science section.
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