Smarter than experts

There's a Ig Nobel prize winning paper with the beautifully worded title "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments". It led to an effect, named after it's authors, called the Dunning Kruger effect. The paper basically shows that incompetent people lack the competence to rate their own skill level. Consequently, they have an inflated view of how good they are. You see it every year on the American Idol auditions. I also see it in global warming debates, where layman skeptics somehow think they more about climate than all the climate scientists who have spent their lifetime studying and publishing research on climate. The winning punchline was submitted by feyanne. There were 21 finalist punchlines chosen for this cartoon. This cartoon was archived on 2009-10-24.

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cap10rob		If it were that important there would be a reality show based on it Rating: 4.25 | No of Ratings: 8 | Submitted Tue 13 Oct 12:24 AM | Rate:
cap10rob		You mean the same scientist experts that created the technology that CAUSED the problem? Rating: 3.80 | No of Ratings: 10 | Submitted Mon 5 Oct 10:42 PM | Rate:
feyanne		For starters, I waste much less paper. Rating: 3.73 | No of Ratings: 11 | Submitted Sun 4 Oct 09:13 PM | Rate:
cap10rob		Experts BAH! Some of them still believe the Earth rotates around the SUN Rating: 3.50 | No of Ratings: 2 | Submitted Thu 22 Oct 03:26 AM | Rate:
cap10rob		Who would you believe? Me or some dweeby, tie wearing, nerdy... Oh wait. Rating: 3.38 | No of Ratings: 8 | Submitted Mon 5 Oct 11:15 PM | Rate:
Nazgul		I'm impartial...in fact, I don't care! Rating: 3.36 | No of Ratings: 11 | Submitted Mon 5 Oct 05:27 PM | Rate:
cap10rob		If so many people agree why aren't they DOING anything except writing papers? Rating: 3.33 | No of Ratings: 9 | Submitted Mon 5 Oct 10:57 PM | Rate:
cap10rob		Know Better... Look Better... Same difference Rating: 3.33 | No of Ratings: 6 | Submitted Tue 6 Oct 02:31 AM | Rate:
SirLaffitup		I have a better memory-- of their PREVIOUS panics! Rating: 3.33 | No of Ratings: 6 | Submitted Sun 18 Oct 03:08 PM | Rate:
SirLaffitup		I won an award for fooling experts! Rating: 3.29 | No of Ratings: 7 | Submitted Sat 10 Oct 12:04 PM | Rate: