"Incompetent People Too Ignorant to Know It"

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http://news.yahoo.com/incompetent-people-too-ignorant-know-175402902.html

Of course, I realized this already, since I am not at all incompetent.

Edit: Also, someone got paid money to do this research?

Fundamental attribution error hard at work.

I know what I know, know what I don’t know, and don’t know what I don’t know.

A famous George Carlin quote:

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. George Carlin

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Of course, that would technically be the median person, rather than the mean person (both of which are legitimate meanings for average, BTW.

If IQ is normally distributed, then presumably if there is a person with IQ>200, there should be someone with negative IQ.