Comments on: I will take my pungo

By: Buddy T

Buddy T — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:47:03 +0000

This was so Funny,

By: Thomas Duncan

Thomas Duncan — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:52:46 +0000

Duuuuudde, stick with the Nordie… don’t listen to suit-boy and his bombproof eggrolls, like running from a sniper you’ll just die tired… thar be sea sarpents…

…NEXT!

By: hadas feldman

hadas feldman — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:33:51 +0000

nice one!!!!!!

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:58:58 +0000

So, now every time I have to fill out one of those silly application forms that asks me my skill level and the word “intermediate” is there – - – you KNOW what I’m going to think about, don’t you?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:39:42 +0000

I wrote this on the Nessmuking Facebook page, but thought I’d copy it here for your readers who don’t read Nessmuking.

The other day, Joe O’Blenis posted this video to Facebook. It’s pretty funny and functions as a humorous examination of the Dunning-Kruger effect:

1. Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill.
2. Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others.
3. Incompetent individuals fail …to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy.
4. If they can be trained to substantially improve their own skill level, these individuals can recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill.

The above points, copied from Wikipedia, about the Dunning-Kruger effect spell-out the themes playing in the video. It serves as an excellent example of some of the dangers involved in rating your own skill level as a beginner in the sport. Because of the D-K effect, when I see newspaper reports about paddling accidents that list the paddler as intermediate, I give pause. Typically, the paddler isn’t.

The video is worth your time, because it’ll make you LOL while informing about a more important issue.