Fear of autocoding!

[Philip Swartzleonard]

Courageous || Mon 11 Feb 2002 09:41:35a:

> 
>>    "People tend to hold overly favorable views of their
>>    abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The
>>    authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in
>>    part, because people who are unskilled in these
>>    domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these
>>    people reach erroneous conclusions and make un-
>>    fortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the
>>    metacognitive ability to realize it" 
> 
> It's a wise enough observation. The concept of
> both individual and group assessment has been
> extensively studied. As it turns out, feeling one
> is better than other people on average is a normal,
> healthy aspect of human psychology. Only depressed
> people routinely rank themselves as average. Which
> is kind of funny; it appears that a healthy state
> of mind is somewhat delusional in this particular way.
> 
> With all that said, I know only one thing for sure:
> 
> I FUCKING ROCK AND YOU ALL SUCK!
> 
>:) :)

Considering the nature and meaning of you and i to depend on which person 
is speaking, i think we can all agree with that. :)

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