From: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 10:39:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Reject non-ff pulls by default
Message-ID: <96F33621753B40E2AB55648FAEAB3445@PhilipOakley>
In-Reply-To: <5E98A1684FFB4A7D93A17A609F92A1B3@PhilipOakley>

From: "Philip Oakley" <philipoakley@iee.org>
> [2] http://dx.doi.org/10.1111%2F1467-8721.01235 "Why People Fail to 
> Recognize Their Own Incompetence".

Oops, That's behind a paywall, and a more recent variant.

>                                          Though the corollaries 
> (People fail to recognise their own skills, and hence they/we 
> mishandle our communications) are just as (IMHO more) important.

I believe this is the on-line version of the original 1999 paper
http://mastercodeprofessional.com/library_files/Kruger-Dunning---Unskilled_and_Unaware_of_It_(2009).pdf

The section 5.1. "The Burden of Expertise" discusses my point above.
"they [Experts] fail to realize that their proficiency is not 
necessarily shared by their peers."

Philip