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This isn't necessarily so. Uttering the words "I don't know" too often damanges your credibility and social standing. A "rational person" thus avoids this type
by 001sky 14y ago
This isn't necessarily so. Uttering the words "I don't know" too often damanges your credibility and social standing. A "rational person" thus avoids this type of behaviour. It is particularly damaging for "experts" to do this. That is, if they were being 'rational'.
- Retric 14y agoYour fooling yourself, people say it all the time. I don't know Ubuntu, but it's I have plenty of Red Hat experience so this should be easy. And even if your clueless there are ways around that: 'What's your thoughts on Darfur?' I am a Physicist, so the political situation in Darfur is really outside my area of expertise. However, from what I herd on NPR last night it sounds bad. Why? PS: I work as a consultant and pretending to know more than you do is one of the fastest ways to ruin your reputation.
- 001sky 14y agoYour fooling yourself... -- This is a bit presumptuous. To say the least. Your counter examples are cynical. It's like ou're happy to admit your greatest weakness is you're too smart and you work too hard. Great. I'm not impressed. Avoiding admitting your wrong in your (professed) area of expertise through (trivial) abstraction might seem clever (to you) but assumes your talking down to you're audience.