Comment on Can you be too incompetent to understand just how incompetent you are?parentComments−stcredzero16yAbbreviating Dunnking-Krueger as DK -- not sure if the publisher of the DK educational books want that to become widespread!−bitwize16yI read it as "Donkey Kong effect" at first. Do the incompetent tackle problems by lobbing barrels at them like an angry gorilla?−stcredzero16yIf barrels = the conventional tools that worked before, then that's not a bad way to start, so long as you stop after hitting your cranium on some brick walls and go and do something else. The answer often comes to me over breakfast the next day.
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Abbreviating Dunnking-Krueger as DK -- not sure if the publisher of the DK educational books want that to become widespread!
I read it as "Donkey Kong effect" at first. Do the incompetent tackle problems by lobbing barrels at them like an angry gorilla?
If barrels = the conventional tools that worked before, then that's not a bad way to start, so long as you stop after hitting your cranium on some brick walls and go and do something else. The answer often comes to me over breakfast the next day.