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Posted by Bent Stigsen on 06/19/06 14:56
Jerry Stuckle wrote:
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> Only to people with a few years of experience who think they know it all.
> Some of the worst "problems" I've had when managing projects is from
> programmers who have a few years of experience and think they know it all.
>
> Don't believe me? Just look at some of the sloppy programming around -
> not due to lack of knowledge, but lack of care/attention. Look at the
> bloated code running around.
I once came across an article of a small psychological study on that
subject. If I remember correctly, the theory was that skills within a field
goes hand in hand with the ability assess quality within that field, which
in turn affects the assessment of performance of others but also of
oneself. Basically, poor skills, leads to inflated self-assessment.
Not that I understood all the psychological mumbojumbo, but quite humourous
article as I recall. Their final remark was something to the effect, that
they felt confident that they had done a good job showing the correlation
between skill and self-assessment, but they had a terrible fear that their
confidence was due to incompetence.
I guess sometimes ignorance really is bliss :)
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/Bent
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