The Dunning-Kruger Effect
Why did I never hear about this before now? What is it? According to Wickipedia
“The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.”
“Metacognitive,” that’s knowing about knowing. People are not aware, all people, of their incompetence. And with all due respect to Steven Weinberg there is and will be no final theory. We’re destined to continue stumbling along, and some of us while doing so thinking that we’re the smart ones.
