alt.lawyers

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 08:07:28 -0800 (PST), Baldin Lee Pramer
wrote:

>On Feb 3, 9:24 am, "Joseph R Loegering"
>wrote:
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>Blah blah blah. No one reads this crap. Pleas get another hobby.

Joe's trying to break Doug Grant's stranglehold on AUK awards. Quite a
task, but Joe has talent and drive, so you never know.

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Welcome to reality. Enjoy your visit. Slow thinkers keep right.
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Why are so many not smart enough to know they're not smart enough?

/journals/features/
© 1999 by the American Psychological Association
December 1999 Vol. 77, No. 6, 1121-1134

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own
Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments

Justin Kruger and David Dunning
Department of Psychology
Cornell University

ABSTRACT:
...the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile
on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test
performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the
12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd.