Fear of autocoding!

[phil hunt]

On Mon, 11 Feb 2002 10:59:36 GMT, Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at pythonware.com> wrote:
>    "People tend to hold overly favorable views of their
>    abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The
>    authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in
>    part, because people who are unskilled in these
>    domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these
>    people reach erroneous conclusions and make un-
>    fortunate choices, but their incompetence robs
>    them of the metacognitive ability to realize it"
>
>    http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html
>
>of course, Rue is going to argue that this doesn't apply to him, but
>to everyone else.  after all, he KNOWS he's smarter than everyone
>else, and we're just too stupid to realize how stupid we are ;-)

Either that or we're part of the Evil Programmers Conspiracy to make
programming hard.

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