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Article Analysis

Research question

The research question, in this case, is how difficulties in realizing the essence of incompetence’s

lead to inflated self-assessment cases.

Literature review

One of the cases which is given to illustrate the situation is the case of Mr. Wheeler who

had stolen a bank with the pretext of using lemon juice to make him invisible to the CCTV

cameras. It is clear when making decisions that people rely on the knowledge they have to make

the right choices. Second, it is important to understand the fact that people differ in the

knowledge and the strategies they use to make decisions (Kruger et al n.p.). When looking at Mr.

Wheeler decision one can identify that he used the wrong strategies and also the knowledge

which he applied was dysfunctional at the end. The third and a unique thinking are that when

people use inferior strategies when making some of the decisions in life, they end up suffering

the burden which is presented (Kruger et al n.p.). The incompetence’s decision they make rob

them of the knowledge, satisfaction and also the success which they would want to make at the

end. It is something that these people fail to recognize and thus end up in the wrong place at the

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Method

The study involved 65 participants who were sourced from Cornell University. They

were undertaking various carouse which was related to psychology. In this case, the method

which was used is questionnaires were 30 items were used. The question s were related to the

jokes which were sourced from Woody Allen (Kruger et al n.p.). The questionnaire was a simple

one as they had their task of only rating the jokes as they were presented. The participants were

supposed to rate the joke on the scale of 11 from what they found to be funny at the end of the

process. Nothing more was expected in the case. Another 45 were used to analyze their course

grade.

Results

The first result is that 66% if the participants were able to tell what was funny but this

was not the main question which the research was looking for. When trying to look for the

participant who was incompetent in analyzing the joke only 12% of them indeed were qualified

to identify the jokes, but they had expressed a 58% qualification. With this, it meant that most of

the participants were not in the position of identifying the perfect joke which would be used in

the case (Kruger et al n.p.). One of the thing that was concluded is that just like beauty the job or

the fun of a joke likes on the person who is feeling the joke. With this, the element of ambiguity

was created as one joke can be aligned with an individual while the same might not to another

person. It was found that about 15% of the 45 were incompetent in one way or another when it

comes to their course grade.

Conclusion

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Surname 1 Name: Institution: Instructor: Date: Article Analysis Research question The research question, in this case, is how difficulties in realizing the essence of incompetence’s lead to inflated self-assessment cases. Literature review One of the cases which is given to illustrate the situation is the case of Mr. Wheeler who had stolen a bank with the pretext of using lemon juice to make him invisible to the CCTV cameras. It is clear when making decisions that people rely on the knowledge they have to make the right choices. Second, it is important to understand the fact that people differ in the knowledge and the strategies they use to make decisions (Kruger et al n.p.). When looking at Mr. Wheeler decision one can identify that he used the wrong strategies and also the knowledge which he applied was dysfunctional at the end. The third and a unique thinking are that when people use inferior strategies when making some of the decisions in life, they end up suffering the burden which is presented (Kruger et al n.p.). The incompetence’s decision they make rob them of the knowledge, satisfaction and also the success which they would want to make at the end. It is something tha ...
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