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by cassac 1016 days ago
Intermediate [insert topic here] knowledge associated with overconfidence and negative attitudes.

Topics: Science, Sports, Cooking, Driving, Programming… literally anything.

I didn’t need a study to know this.
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quickthrower2 1016 days ago
It this the B swimming lane thing again?
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cassac 1016 days ago
I do not know the reference. Is it that people claim the middle lanes are faster?

But I do know that a lot of people across a lot of topics over estimate their ability because they don’t know what they don’t know. Science as a topic isn’t special in this regard.

Jr devs are great examples. Your code is garbage and I am brilliant, just let me change this thing here and OH MY THE SYSTEM IS BROKE PLEASE HELP ME! Intermediate knowledge and negative attitudes.

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quickthrower2 1016 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37359250

B lane swimmers are less friendly than A,C, and D at least anecdotally

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