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A Sort of Explanation

A series of five articles on anosognosia, a disease related to human`s limited cognition, reaches this bright end:

ERROL MORRIS: And aren’t there some tasks where we’re all incompetent, where humanity itself is in the bottom quartile, so to speak?

DAVID DUNNING: Well, that has to be true for some tasks, right? There are just some tasks that are incredibly hard. How many centuries have gone by, and we still don’t have world peace? Yes, there are things that we’re just bad at.

I wonder how many things could be explained by the Dunning-Kruger Effect: our incompetence masks our ability to recognize our incompetence.

Give it a try,

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