Shitty pop-psychology is shitty pop-psychology. A more realistic "impostor syndrome" is the IT idea of 'fake it till you make it'. In other words, its a tacit

Shitty pop-psychology is shitty pop-psychology. A more realistic "impostor syndrome" is the IT idea of 'fake it till you make it'. In other words, its a tacit admission you dont know shit and you're googling for ideas until you get something that sticks. And yeah, most IT is like this. Even Stack Overflow is a meme - search here and copy/paste regardless the quality. And, well, it's not impostor syndrome if you're a know-nothing idiot. And the crap about Dunning-Kruger.. It just serves a way to shut experts up and dismiss their experiences and knowledge. Its basically the pseudo-science crap way of saying "My quiet ignorance is better than your direct assurances". Then again, business types also believe in shit like forcing all employees in Myers–Briggs Type Indicator crap, and then comparing that across everyone. And if you know anything about psychology, you don't do longitudinal comparisons of this sort of crap.