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Ok, several different things sort of collided in my head the other day.

First was the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Next was Impostor syndrome

Add in a Dilbert cartoon where the pointy-haired boss was talking to Alice about Dunning-Kruger...

So, I thought, we have the *really* incompetent thing they are great at whatever, so they'll be very confident about their abilities. And a fair percentage of the folks who are actually *good* at something will have Impostor syndrome and not be very confident.

Now, what is a very important (actually *overly* important in my opinion) factor in job interviews? How confident the applicant appears.

Considering the above, that may not be a very good criteria. Especially if you add in the con-man types who can *exude* confidence in spite of knowing they aren't competent, but can *fake* things long enough to accomplish their goal.

Once again subjective factors mess things up.

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