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* the Dunning-Kruger effect is observable but not provable | * the Dunning-Kruger effect is observable but not provable | ||
** i.e., it can happen but just because someone does not have competence does not mean that person will draw hasty, broad and wrong conclusions | ** i.e., it can happen but just because someone does not have competence does not mean that person will draw hasty, broad and wrong conclusions | ||
=== Entropy === | |||
* "entropy" is the 2nd Newtonian Law of physics that energy will move from high to low systems | |||
** i.e., a something hot will transfer its heat to something colder | |||
* in Social Sciences, entropy indicates that systems will tend to decline over time\ | |||
** related to ''Thucydides Trap'' and ''Stein's Law'' | |||
=== Hawthorne effect / Observation bias === | === Hawthorne effect / Observation bias === | ||