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Cropley10
09-11-2022, 11:26 AM
The Dunning-Kruger effect occurs when a person's lack of knowledge and skills in a certain area cause them to overestimate their own competence.

So let’s say you’ve got the money to buy a football club, our club. You’ve never run one before, but you decide to purge a lot of the staff who actually understand what you’ve just bought, the business and Scottish football. This leads you to employing your son as Head of Recruitment, the most important job, after the manager. He knows nothing about Scottish football, or player recruitment either but clearly overestimates his own competence. You go on to employ a CEO who, you’ve guessed it, knows nothing about Scottish football either, and not much about running a Club.

Because you can’t stop overestimating your own competence you sack a manager who’d just returned a third place finish, and replace him with him someone who’d never been a manager before, lo and behold this doesn’t work and he has to be sacked to avoid the specter of relegation. You employ yet another, who as a consequence of the Dunning-Kruger effect that pervades Hibernian, either doesn’t know what he is doing, overestimating his own competence, and/or simply doesn’t have the quality or type of player needed in this League.

This is where we are with Wrong Gordon. Our Club has been bought by and is run by someone who, unfortunately for all of us, doesn’t recognise the Dunning-Kruger Effect. What a mess.

#2 Double Tap
09-11-2022, 12:38 PM
the problem successful people have is they fail to realise that the difference between success and failure is luck, not skill and hard work like the world tries to make us minnions believe.

Hibbyradge
09-11-2022, 12:42 PM
Does this effect apply to fans posting complex psychology theories on football forums?

Asking for a friend. :wink:

SlickShoes
09-11-2022, 12:42 PM
At this point it's not just Ian Gordon that's failing, it's the whole recruitment team. Why are barely any new signings getting a game? why do we still have pretty much the same team as this time last year?

We have one really good player in David Marshall, and the rest are a big letdown.

Cropley10
09-11-2022, 02:00 PM
Does this effect apply to fans posting complex psychology theories on football forums?

Asking for a friend. :wink:

If you think it's a "complex psychology theory" then I can't help you or your friend.

People overestimate their competencies. Wrong Gordon has done just that. Spending capital on advertising infrastructure and hospitality; easy - running a successful football club; hard.

Like I said - it's easier if you know something about Scottish Football.

HoboHarry
09-11-2022, 02:10 PM
There'll be more than a few on here scratching their balls and staring unknowingly at the subject matter of this thread. :wink:

Hibbyradge
09-11-2022, 02:46 PM
If you think it's a "complex psychology theory" then I can't help you or your friend.

People overestimate their competencies. Wrong Gordon has done just that. Spending capital on advertising infrastructure and hospitality; easy - running a successful football club; hard.

Like I said - it's easier if you know something about Scottish Football.

I'm not for a minute suggesting that your superficial knowledge of the theory is complex. :wink:

The theory itself, however, is. It has been researched, written about, challenged, debunked and rebunked for decades. Whether is has any significant merit or not is contested.

However, there are definitely many people who have exaggerated opinions of their own abilities.

Personally, I suffer from Imposter syndrome.

And so does my friend.

Hibbyradge
09-11-2022, 02:55 PM
On another note, how much do the owners of EPL clubs know about English football?

Lago
09-11-2022, 03:00 PM
the problem successful people have is they fail to realise that the difference between success and failure is luck, not skill and hard work like the world tries to make us minnions believe.
Every successful person has been lucky, rather than through their own hard work and skill sets, bit of a stretch, in fact complete and lazy student thinking.

Cropley10
09-11-2022, 03:26 PM
I'm not for a minute suggesting that your superficial knowledge of the theory is complex. :wink:

The theory itself, however, is. It has been researched, written about, challenged, debunked and rebunked for decades. Whether is has any significant merit or not is contested.

However, there are definitely many people who have exaggerated opinions of their own abilities.

Personally, I suffer from Imposter syndrome.

And so does my friend.

My simple point is he has demonstrated no competency whatsoever in running the football side of his 'business'. As to the question about English teams, the Chelsea owner is in the same boat as Wrong, but the successful clubs appear to hire people who know what they're doing (and the rest is easy, as they say).