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When do we reach the expert stage?

In a previous post, I discussed about the Dunning-Kruger effect. As a brief summary, it means: “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”. When you are aware of this result, you just ask yourself whether it’s normal to be confident in a [...]

Posted 22 May 2009 † coder-friendly § developer ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Are you a competent developer?

Have you heard about the Dunning-Kruger effect? The definition of Wikipedia is:
The Dunning-Kruger effect is an example of cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”. They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average. [...]

Posted 29 April 2009 † coder-friendly § developer ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: ,