User talk:Genscripter

September 2014
 Hello, I'm Donner60. I wanted to let you know that I undid one of your recent contributions, such as the one you made with this edit to Dunning–Kruger effect, because it didn’t appear constructive to me. If you think I made a mistake, or if you have any questions, you can leave me a message on my talk page. Thanks. Donner60 (talk) 06:42, 30 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I should have been more specific: Isn't your edit just a paraphrase of a quotation which is already in the article, namely, "One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision"? I am deleting the above notice because your edit was obviously in good faith. Donner60 (talk) 06:56, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Actually, Bertrand Russel said both quotes in different scenarios. Frankly, I'm surprised the quote cited in the wikipedia article was there, since the "cocksure" quote is so commonly cited everyday. It says that these antecedent quotes were described in the original Dunning Kruger paper, so maybe that is why the lesser-known quote is utilized. Regardless, "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt" is more succinct and more commonly used. Also, even though they appear redundant, one deals with the population as a spectrum of intelligence and the other deals with an era of empathy.


 * Maybe the best way to handle it is to substitute one for the other, along with a citation. I am not sure it would be all that productive to cite them both since they are so similar. Donner60 (talk) 03:04, 1 October 2014 (UTC)