"There are five stages to grief, which are denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. And right now, out there, they're all denying the fact that they're sad. And that's hard. It's making them all angry. And it is my job to try to get them all the way through to acceptance. And if not acceptance, then just depression. If I can get them depressed, then I'll have done my job." (source: The Office) **
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This blog mainly discusses the idea of unconscious incompetence which usually occurs mostly in newbies, and novices who are fresh or newly introduced to a topic , task etc.
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Above is a very familiar figure used to represent numbers visually on a 2-dimensional coordinate system( The cartesian Plane).. Anyone reading this is very likely to have seen this coordinate system since his/her junior high school days.
The Learning Coordinates is similar to the cartesian representation the dimensions remain the same but just for fun let's rename the coordinates. "X-coordinate and Y-coordinate" sounds too boring and naïve. We shall call the X-coordinate as "Skill" and Y-coordinate as "Confidence/Maturity/Experience" in the topic. This idea of learning was first shared by two scientists Dunning and Kruger but explaining it using the number line make it more succinct and one can connect with it easily.
Above image shows the learning curve which was first coined by the two psychologists Dunning and Kruger.
"In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence".(source: Wikipedia).