How is it that the boldest criminals so often turn out to be the most clueless? James Blankenship was, it would seem, pretty sure of himself when he broke into a home outside Cleveland in broad daylight last summer. “I thought you could only be charged with burglary if you break in during the nighttime,” he reportedly told the police officers who arrested him.
Before laughing too hard, you should know there’s a bit of James Blankenship in all of us. That’s because we’re all susceptible to something called the Dunning-Kruger Effect when we venture outside our areas of expertise.
via Pacific Standard
