Revisiting why incompetents think they're awesome

Don't want these emails? Unsubscribe here. Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Top stories: May 25 - Jun 01 Features Revisiting why incompetents think they're awesome by Chris Lee In 1999 a pair of researchers published a paper called "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments (PDF)." David Dunning and Justin Kruger (both at Cornell University's Department of Psychology at the time) conducted a series of four studies showing that, in certain cases, people who are very bad at something think they are actually pretty good. They showed that to assess your own expertise at something, you need to have a certain amount of expertise already. Read More Features Precision and purpose: Ubuntu 12.04 and the Unity HUD reviewed by Ryan Paul Ubuntu 12.04, codenamed Precise Pangolin, rolled out last month. The new version of the popular Linux distribution brings updated software and new features, including the highly-anticipated Heads-Up Display (HUD) interface. The HUD is one of several excellent improvements that have helped to make Ubuntu's Unity desktop shell even better in Ubuntu 12.04 Read More Features 25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web by Matthew Lasar Sometime around 1988, my landlady and I cut a deal. She would purchase a Macintosh computer, I would buy an external hard drive, and we would leave the system in the living room to share. She used the device most, since I did my computing on an IBM 286 and just wanted to keep up with Apple developments. But after we set up the Mac, I sat down with it one evening and noticed a program on the applications menu. "HyperCard?" I wondered. "What's that?" Read More Forward this message to a friend More hot stories Nook version of War and Peace turns the word "kindled" into "Nookd" What questions are keeping astronomers up at night? One nano-SIM to rule them all: Apple submission approved as standard $15 Windows 8 upgrades available from Microsoft through January 2013 Microsoft E3 press conference liveblog Google to EU: Microsoft is engaging in patent proxy trolling Pre-emptive trailers show off some of E3's biggest titles "Viral nature of the Internet" means only family can release autopsy photos ITC judge to use "Cheech and Chong" test in Apple v. Samsung case Organic hydrogel outperforms typical carbon supercapacitors Email Admin Center This newsletter is a service of Ars Technica. Should you no longer wish to receive these messages, unsubscribe. To ensure delivery of this newsletter to your inbox and to enable images to load in future mailings, please add civis@arstechnica.com to your e-mail address book or safe senders list. You are receiving this email at narrongs.hotmobile@blogger.com. Condé Nast Digital 1166 Avenue of the Americas, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10036, attn: Ars Technica Email Coordinator To view our Privacy Policy click here.