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It's real, it's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. I've seen it plenty of times with real superstar-experts rate themselves as "slightly above average"... http:
by svantana 13y ago
It's real, it's called the Dunning-Kruger Effect. I've seen it plenty of times with real superstar-experts rate themselves as "slightly above average"...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
- RogerL 13y agoI think it is more than that. I had a boss that basically would not hire somebody if they said they were at the top of any measure. In one sense, she was correct. No one can know everything about C++. OTOH, if you are in the 9x percentile, why should you not rate yourself at 9-10 out of ten? At some point it gets silly when you are arguing about how you should properly distribute yourself in bins so long as you understand the scope of the problem.
- loup-vaillant 13y agoI think there are actually 2 questions: Among professional programmers, at what percentile are you, in terms of C++ knowledge? Of all there is to know about C++, how much (in%) do you know? Your answer will depend a great deal on which question you believe this is about.
- okamiueru 13y agoThe only problem with that is that you have no way of knowing what kind of scale adjustments they are using. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.no/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.no/2010/02/boyfriend-doesn...