On 2018-10-30, Felmon Davis <dav...@union.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: > >> People who have no experience doing a thing believe that the >> thing is hard. > > for a different perspective, look up "Dunning-Kruger Effect." >
I did and I think Dunning and Kruger are probably the best examples of their own eponymous syndrome, which was cleverly derived from the seminal case of failed bank robber McArthur Wheeler. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect McArthur Wheeler, who robbed banks with his face covered with lemon juice, which he believed would make it invisible to the surveillance cameras. This belief was based on his misunderstanding of the chemical properties of lemon juice... Based on his misunderstanding of the chemical properties of lemon juice! How do you say *canular* in English, anyway? -- When you have fever you are heavy and light, you are small and swollen, you climb endlessly a ladder which turns like a wheel. --Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark