Source: “Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence” from Current Directions in Psychological Science Because these notions often do not correlate with objective performance, they can lead people to make judgments about their performance that have little to do with actual accomplishment. People base their perceptions of performance, in part, on their preconceived notions about their skills. This lack of awareness arises because poor performers are doubly cursed: Their lack of skill deprives them not only of the ability to produce correct responses, but also of the expertise necessary to surmise that they are not producing them. However, people tend to be blissfully unaware of their incompetence. Successful negotiation of everyday life would seem to require people to possess insight about deficiencies in their intellectual and social skills. To oversimplify it a tad - stupid people may be too stupid to realize they’re stupid: If you don’t have the experience (or the mental firepower) to do this effectively, your judgements won’t be accurate. To know how skilled you are at something, you need to watch yourself, watch others and compare.
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