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Why do incompetent people often have inflated opinions of their own abilities?
« Online: 21 de Junho de 2008, 22:15:55 »
This paper suggests a possible explanation:

http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf
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Re: Why do incompetent people often have inflated opinions of their own abilities?
« Resposta #1 Online: 27 de Junho de 2008, 19:30:44 »
As the paper suggests, they are too incompetent to realize that they are incompetent!
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Re: Why do incompetent people often have inflated opinions of their own abilities?
« Resposta #2 Online: 02 de Julho de 2008, 10:58:49 »
Lemon juice is invisible ink? :lol:
If that guy died from this, it would be Darwin Award for sure.
(The sun, probably, wasn't strong on that day: sun+lemon = painfull burned skin for sure)

The article sounds to me as an alert. Everyone is incopetent at some degree. Sometimes, it's just self-marketing - but hey, tell to everyone a lie and you'll be believing in it soon...
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