Here’s How to Tell Within 5 Minutes If Someone Isn’t as Smart as They Think | Inc.com

As Dunning, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, says, “if you’re incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent. The skills you need to produce the right answer are the very same skills you need to recognize the right answer.”

As Bertrand Russell said, “one of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”

Or as my grandfather said, “the dumber you are, the more you think you know.”

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This is click bait. Sorry. But it makes me think about how I used to think I was very smart and now I don’t think that so much. But is this because I really am smart enough to realize now that I’m not that smart, or just that I have gotten older, decayed mentally, and so really am not so smart anymore? Could it be some of both? Ah well. Time for lunch.