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Confidence is a proxy for competence, which, through the interview process, we are imperfectly testing.

• enraged_camel 10y ago
  >>Confidence is a proxy for competence I take it you've never heard of Dunning-Kruger effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect Or its opposite, Imposter Syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
  • caylus 10y ago
    Just because there are exceptions, and we have names for both the positive and negative forms of the exceptions, doesn't mean there's not a strong correlation overall.
  • anonymoushn 10y ago
    In the Dunning-Kruger paper, estimated ability is positively correlated with ability.