Klarinet Archive - Posting 000272.txt from 2003/07

From: Claudia Zornow <claudia.zornow@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Ignorance and competence
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2003 13:36:38 -0400

David C Kumpf wrote:

> After reading this, I was motivated to search online for a Scientific
> American article I read a few years ago.
>
> I remember now only that the article's thesis was that the *clueless* are
> doomed to remain so....because they're completely unaware of their ignorance.
>
> Unfortunately, several different combinations of search terms on Google
> failed to put me with striking distance of the article. I know that there is
> MUCH more to the problem. If anyone remembers the article and has a link, I
> would be grateful to have it.

This may not be the article you mean, but it's about the same topic:
http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html. The article's thesis
is: "The skills that engender competence in a particular domain are
often the very same skills necessary to evaluate competence in that
domain--one's own or anyone else's."

I think this is very true in music; people who are incompetent (i.e.
having significantly less than average skill) at rhythm or intonation,
for example, typically don't seem to know it, and the more that I learn
(the more "competent" I become), the more able I am to realize how
incompetent I still am.

Claudia

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