Life's a bitch, then you die

This post comes from reading about the Dunning-Kruger Effect, ie. "our incompetence masks our ability to recognize our incompetence".

Excerpts:

• But when you’re incompetent, the skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is.
• We’re not very good at knowing what we don’t know.
• The notion of unknown unknowns really does resonate with me, and perhaps the idea would resonate with other people if they knew that it originally came from the world of design and engineering rather than Rumsfeld.
• Unknown unknown risks, on the other hand, are problems that people do not know they are vulnerable to.
• Unknown unknown solutions haunt the mediocre without their knowledge.
• With an “unknown unknown,” I don’t even know what questions to ask, let alone how to answer those questions.
• Anosognosia is a condition in which a person who suffers from a disability seems unaware of or denies the existence of his or her disability.

It's really a bitch when you don't know how stupid you are.  You can go your entire life and not know it.

Lovely thought.