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deelaundryOne awesome thing to come of SurveyFail (besides the reconfirmation that there are some amazingly bright and talented people in fandom) is that it has led me to this research paper:
“Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments” (1999, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 77, No. 6., p. 1121-1134).
"The authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability."
LOLOLOLOLOL So true.
This underscores the need for humility, for realizing and accepting that there's more out there that you don't know than you do know.
Y'all will always keep me honest on that, right? *hugs*
“Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments” (1999, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Vol. 77, No. 6., p. 1121-1134).
"The authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability."
LOLOLOLOLOL So true.
This underscores the need for humility, for realizing and accepting that there's more out there that you don't know than you do know.
Y'all will always keep me honest on that, right? *hugs*
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Date: 2009-09-03 10:17 pm (UTC)OMG. I don't think I've ever seen fandom so united in slapping these "researchers" down. Go fandom, FTW! \0/
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Date: 2009-09-04 02:12 am (UTC)*hugs you*
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Date: 2009-09-03 10:49 pm (UTC)*smish!*
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Date: 2009-09-04 02:16 am (UTC)LOLOLOL
*hugs*
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Date: 2009-09-03 11:30 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-04 02:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2009-09-04 12:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-04 02:17 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-04 12:56 am (UTC)I didn't want to bring it up but since you asked us to keep you honest, I was wondering if you remembered about the HL drive fic?
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Date: 2009-09-04 02:21 am (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2009-09-04 03:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-04 02:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-04 11:41 am (UTC)I doubt there's ever the slightest chance of you needing to be 'kept honest' on that *hugs*
Also, TY for that link about the survey - I knew the bare bones of it, but not some of the detail (like how condescending at least one of the 'writers' was being. It does sound as if they thought fandom was just a bunch of women (and only women) with no brains, getting off to OMGPR0N. Oopsadaisy). My favourite bit is where the University of Boston went "HE'S NOTHING TO DO WITH US TYVM EEW" XD
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Date: 2009-09-05 10:22 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-13 05:04 am (UTC)So people who cannot thing logically or express themselves don't test well? I could have told you that.
I'm developing a survey now and the company we're working with has a big survey that we're using some questions from. I changed "People should be responsible for their own health care, not the government" to "People, not the government, should be responsible for their health care." They said if I changed the wording we couldn't compare the answers to the national survey. 1) I wasn't planning to and 2) just because your respondents have to choose between caring about their health and caring about the gov't doesn't mean mine do.
Eeeeesh!
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Date: 2009-09-13 05:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2009-09-13 05:16 am (UTC)I like the fact that they had a hypothesis and wrote the survey to prove it. The hallmark of good science.