Mark at Sting of Reason may have the graph to illustrate the Dunning-Kruger Effect perfectly:
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal for March 8, 2011, via Sting of Reason
Original here, at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal.
Does that pretty well nail Dunning-Kruger, or what?
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Posted by Ed Darrell
. . . who ruined Wall Street. Or something.
Teachers are not to blame - pass it on
Our nation faces real crises. While much of the wealth destroyed by the Crash of 2008 has been recovered, it’s been reallocated from working families to large banks and the wealthy. We still have a crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, not least over how and whether we can explore for ever-more-precious oil in ever-more-dangerous places — Congress cut the money to improve regulations to prevent future spills. We need secure pensions for people who work for their entire lives, and want to retire so a younger person can have their job — heck our economy needs people to retire earlier, not later. We need secure funding for education, for primary and secondary education, and for college, which is increasingly a necessity.
None of those problems was created by teachers, NPR, Planned Parenthood, Head Start, PBS, the guy next door who lost his job, nor the many immigrants who came to this nation to build our economy while building their own little store of wealth.
Ronald Reagan said that for every difficult problem, there is a solution that is simple, easy to understand, popular — and wrong. I wish people would quit endorsing those solutions to problems we don’t have, and work for real solutions to the problems we do have.
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Posted by Ed Darrell
Not only is April National Poetry Month, but April 14th is National Poem in Your Pocket Day.
National Poem in Your Pocket Day 2011 - click for details
The idea is simple: select a poem you love during National Poetry Month then carry it with you to share with co-workers, family, and friends.
Poems from pockets will be unfolded throughout the day with events in parks, libraries, schools, workplaces, and bookstores. Create your own Poem In Your Pocket Day event using ideas below or let us know how your plans, projects, and suggestions for Poem In Your Pocket Day by emailing npm@poets.org.
Put Poems In Pockets
In this age of mechanical and digital reproduction, it’s easy to carry a poem, share a poem, or start your own PIYP day event. Here are some ideas of how you might get involved:
- Start a “poems for pockets” give-a-way in your school or workplace
- Urge local businesses to offer discounts for those carrying poems
- Post pocket-sized verses in public places
- Handwrite some lines on the back of your business cards
- Start a street team to pass out poems in your community
- Distribute bookmarks with your favorite immortal lines
- Add a poem to your email footer
- Post a poem on your blog or social networking page
- Project a poem on a wall, inside or out
- Text a poem to friends
Help us expand the list: send your ideas to npm@poets.org.
Poem In Your Pocket History
Poem In Your Pocket Day has been celebrated each April in New York City since 2004. Each year, city parks, bookstores, workplaces, and other venues burst with open readings of poems from pockets. Even the Mayor gets in on the festivities, reading a poem on the radio. For more information on New York City’s celebration, visit nyc.gov/poem.
Highlights from past Poem In Your Pocket Day events.
Poems have been stowed in pockets in a variety of ways, from the commonplace books of the Renaissance to the pocket-sized publications for Army soldiers in World War II. Have a story about the marriage of the poem and the pocket? Send them to npm@poets.org.
I just stumbled into National Poetry Month and National Poem in Your Pocket Day a few years ago, gearing up to use The Ride of Paul Revere on the anniversary of his famous ride. How are you using poetry in your job?
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Ed Darrell on Texas's Colorado River
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