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PDFNeurological reflections
Ignorant of ignorance?
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‘Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognising one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments’. Not really neurology but still a great paper, summarised by its title, which has important implications in training neurologists and revalidation. In this paper Kruger and Dunning1 took a group of Cornell students and asked …
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