Klarinet Archive - Posting 000338.txt from 2003/07

From: "David C Kumpf" <dkumpf@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Ignorance and competence
Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 12:27:37 -0400

Claudia Zornow wrote:

> This may not be the article you mean, but it's about the same topic:
> http://www.apa.org/journals/psp/psp7761121.html. The=20
> article's thesis=20
> is: "The skills that engender competence in a particular domain are=20
> often the very same skills necessary to evaluate competence in that=20
> domain--one's own or anyone else's." =20
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> 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=20
> that I learn=20
> (the more "competent" I become), the more able I am to realize how=20
> incompetent I still am.
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> Claudia
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Thanks, Claudia. This is definitely along the lines of the Scientific
American article. The headline of the article here implies that one's =
ego is
involved as well; i.e. "even though everyone else can see that I have no
clue, I'm convinced that I do (until demonstrated otherwise)".

Dave Kumpf
dkumpf@-----.com=20

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