On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 10:24:43 -0800, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
I think self-awareness is the key, so I hope he makes it. I've mentioned it on-list before, but I'm so taken with it that let me mention again the paper "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments"[1].
I believe the phenomenon was first documented in 1940 by J. Mercer, refined by R. Bloom, and brought to popular notice by F. A. Sinatra.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fools_Rush_In_%28Where_Angels_Fear_to_Tread%29
Guy (JzG)