The PressTurk web site discusses (in Turkish) how the Ig Nobel Prize-winning Dunning-Kruger Effect helps explain why there are so very, very many people who think they are experts on the subject of evolutionary biology. Here’s part of the discussion, auto-translated into English: Resulting from ignorance Courage Darwin, I have noticed it in the 19th […]
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Organizational ignorance (Towards a managerial perspective on the unknown)
Those interested in the management of organisations may already be aware that the concept of ‘Ignorance Management’ has its own page at Wikipedia. A definition was first provided in 2012 by John Israilidis Antoniou and colleagues at Loughborough University, UK. [source] “Ignorance Management is a process of discovering, exploring, realising, recognising and managing ignorance […]
Ignorance, risk, expertise, whatever
Ignorance, risk, rationality, expertise—this treatise has it all, plus food: “Institutionalized ignorance as a precondition for rational risk expertise,” Henrik Merkelsen [pictured here], Risk Analysis, 2011 Jul;31(7):1083-94. The author, at Copenhagen Business School, explains: “The present case study seeks to explain the conditions for experts’ rational risk perception by analyzing the institutional contexts that constitute […]
Old dinosaur beliefs: What’s new?
The dinosaur news from Texas contains little that’s new. The Texas Tribune reports, on February 17, 2010: Nearly a third of Texans believe humans and dinosaurs roamed the earth at the same time, and more than half disagree with the theory that humans developed from earlier species of animals, according to the University of Texas/Texas […]
“General Ignorance,” objectively determined and measured
While comparing the scores of random Joe Shmoes on a set of personality measures I had devised over the last few hours, I noticed strong positive correlations between some of them. I discarded the non-correlated ones and came up with the table shown here as Figure 2. Experts tell me that the positive correlations of […]