I think there are a lot of reasonably smart cocky/arrogant people. I think there...

		brlewis on June 13, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Humans prefer cockiness to expertise I think there are a lot of reasonably smart cocky/arrogant people. I think there are hardly any extremely smart ones. But there are plenty of ones that people think are extremely smart, due to the phenomenon this article describes. Arrogance hinders people from getting smarter.