tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078331897510807942.post8260570327377335154..comments2023-12-28T01:11:49.188-08:00Comments on Cum Lazaro: Iain MacWhirter and the closing of the Scottish mindLazarushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09716412032074416331noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078331897510807942.post-25327845699673330682012-04-25T00:41:47.527-07:002012-04-25T00:41:47.527-07:00Hadn't come across the term 'Dunning-Kruge...Hadn't come across the term 'Dunning-Kruger' before (although I've certainly met the reality of it!). <br /><br />Anyway, I'm sure once the 'consultation' on same sex marriage comes out, we'll all be stunned by its careful analysis of the role of the family in modern Scotland...Lazarushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09716412032074416331noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5078331897510807942.post-66928453714018520002012-04-24T14:08:58.532-07:002012-04-24T14:08:58.532-07:00It's depressing, isn't it? There was that ...It's depressing, isn't it? There was that education consultation years ago. The shoddiness of the document was an embarrassment, really. An assemblage of trendy catchphrases and trigger words with no evidence that the compiler had any awareness at all of the many and extensive assumptions on which the questions relied. <br /><br />Have you heard of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect" rel="nofollow">Dunning-Kruger effect</a>? The article had me in stitches. I've met these people so often, and they caused me a great deal of perplexity when I was younger and readier to take people at their own estimation!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com