>From a tango dancer's Blog ( but referring to a certain VP candidate): "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments."
The two Cornell psychologists began with the following assumptions: Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy. http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf Is there an application to tango dancers/teachers/wannabes? Curiously, Nancy _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
