A "Think" Piece

[Coda]

Okay, I thought I'd stir up the board a little with a "think" piece about the brain and how it registers different sensations--including music. For more info, just click on the sidebar about brain imaging. Enjoy!

http://www.freep.com/voices/sunday/ebra ... 040627.htm

[Coda]

Here's another article, this time from the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. (Saw it referenced in an article by Robert X. Cringely, and I was intrigued.)

You know the idea that people who really know a lot about something start to realize how little they really know--in a cosmic sense? Well, I would describe the idea of this article as a corollary to that idea: People who know very little about a subject think they know a lot more than they do. Or, incompetent people don't have a clue about how incompetent they really are! Or, those who talk the most, know the least!


http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html

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Great article. The "unskilled and unaware" phenomenon is definitely something I've noticed, never made the meta connection, though. I just thought that it was arrogance that gave people overconfidence in their abilities, not lack of knowledge.