TIL: Today I Learned

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned that the inverse version of Dunning-Kruger effect, where people overestimate their abilities because they don't know otherwise, is impostor syndrome, where they underestimate their abilities and feel themselves a 'fraud.' This is probably pretty simplified though.

 

[Birdjaguar]

@CurtSibling I worked particularly hard on this line: And wearein awe while over keyboards slavin’,

Yes, those were very good days with lots of engaging threads.

 

[Zkribbler]

The internet told me today that more people are reading poetry today than ever before. This can't be right. I know of no one reading poetry.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Did you read the post at the top of this page?

 

[Timsup2nothin]

The internet told me today that more people are reading poetry today than ever before. This can't be right. I know of no one reading poetry.

This is a simple function of there being a whole lot more people.

 

[Takhisis]

Yeah, there's never been so much cancer before either and everybody should buy my asbestos-free milk. Statistics can be trumped up to no end.

 

[Farm Boy]

Philistines.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

The internet told me today that more people are reading poetry today than ever before. This can't be right. I know of no one reading poetry.

Am I just imagining that you included poetry in one of your stories?

 

[Synobun]

Zkribbler is a fan of music interludes, like J.K. Rowling in the early HP books.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Zkribbler is a fan of music interludes, like J.K. Rowling in the early HP books.

Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone was on TV tonight. I'm actually starting to like these movies.

Musical montages can be really effective in TV shows and movies, but aren't easy to convey in writing. There's one that plays out in my mind when I'm visualizing the funeral for one of my protagonists, but how to write it is going to be very challenging. Unfortunately, fanfiction.net doesn't allow what they call "songfics" (copyright reasons, I imagine), so how to convey the lyrics to "Only Time" while various characters remember their interactions with the dead character... yikes. Some of the characters there are musicians, so it's easy enough to write them performing this song, but it's not something I can include on a site that doesn't allow song lyrics.

 

[Zkribbler]

Am I just imagining that you included poetry in one of your stories?

Song lytics...but still, no one is reading them.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Today I learned that the inverse version of Dunning-Kruger effect, where people overestimate their abilities because they don't know otherwise, is impostor syndrome, where they underestimate their abilities and feel themselves a 'fraud.' This is probably pretty simplified though.

I had a bunch of friends who suffered that after graduating and it was sad because they were pretty smart.

 

[Birdjaguar]

I had a bunch of friends who suffered that after graduating and it was sad because they were pretty smart.

Peter principle
The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence". In other words, an employee is promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another. The concept was elucidated in the 1969 book The Peter Principle by Peter and Raymond Hull.

 

[AmazonQueen]

Peter principle
The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence". In other words, an employee is promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another. The concept was elucidated in the 1969 book The Peter Principle by Peter and Raymond Hull.

Particularly apparent in schools where because someone is an excellent teacher they stop them teaching and make them an administrator instead.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Particularly apparent in schools where because someone is an excellent teacher they stop them teaching and make them an administrator instead.

Exactly. Or skilled technicians moved to supervisory or management roles.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I had a bunch of friends who suffered that after graduating and it was sad because they were pretty smart.

I got curious about this because even though I'm far better at writing, I'm far more nervous about my current fanfic than I remember being about my very first one. (Though there is a possibility that I'm remembering badly and I was just as nervous before.) I remember reading about Dunning-Kruger effect somewhere and was curious about if there was an opposite. So I looked it up.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Today I learned that you can see the borders of Lesotho on a satellite map from the geography:

 

[Takhisis]

Peter principle
The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their "level of incompetence". In other words, an employee is promoted based on their success in previous jobs until they reach a level at which they are no longer competent, as skills in one job do not necessarily translate to another. The concept was elucidated in the 1969 book The Peter Principle by Peter and Raymond Hull.

Particularly apparent in schools where because someone is an excellent teacher they stop them teaching and make them an administrator instead.

There's also the Dilbert principle: promoting people into middle management so that they cannot be at the upper layer where important decisions are made (and also there is a supervisor who can have their mistakes fixed) nor at the lower layer where actual work is done.
Combine them and you get the typical inefficiency of contemporary large organisations.

 

[Ferocitus]

TIL that the German space agency (DLR) has released a spectacular 3D map of Earth.
Built from images acquired by two radar satellites, it traces the variations in height across all land surfaces - an area totalling more than 148 million sq km.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-en...nvironment&link_location=live-reporting-story

The most interesting feature of the map is something I have suspected for a long time - New Zealand does not exist!

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I thought it was Finland that wasn't supposed to exist?