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Did Dunning-Kruger Cause the Great Recession?

We considered one cause of the Great Recession.  This was the perversion of the very definition of the value.  In the sociology of ‘groupthink’ (where the group is wrong, but everyone says it’s ok),  Dunning-Kruger gave us another cause.  (There are more to come – stay tuned!) In a good world, a profession, legislators, administrators, […]

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Is Appraisal Obsolete? Part 4: Education

If education regurgitates only prior ‘established, time-tested’ methods, nothing happens. This is the fourth in our series on how progress in appraisal is stymied by the five frictions:  process, standards, education, client expectation, and regulation.  We will end this series after the new year with a simple, yet comprehensive, mystery solution. Stale education perpetuates appraisal […]

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