Fear of autocoding!

[Fredrik Lundh]

Courageous wrote:

> >Very good example of someone who is afraid of autocoding.
>
> You never did answer my question, by the way. If one has
> become delusional, how does one become aware of it?

for some reason, this whole thread reminds me of this little gem:

    Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in
    Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to
    Inflated Self-Assessments (Kruger & Dunning, 1999)

    "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"

    http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html

of course, Rue is going to argue that this doesn't apply to him, but
to everyone else.  after all, he KNOWS he's smarter than everyone
else, and we're just too stupid to realize how stupid we are ;-)

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