“I believe what I believe and I believe what I believe is right.”
Chris at Interesting Times finds a very interesting article that will go into the “What Make’s These Crazies Tick” folder immediately.
The two psychologists think that inept people are often self-assured because they lack self-monitoring skills, which are the same skills required for competence. Subjects who scored in the lowest quartile in tests of logic, English grammar, and humor were also the mostly likely to “grossly overestimate” how well they performed.