Umer Farooq has been reincarnated.

 

Hello

@ #12,

You just hijacked an existing thread:
http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/showthread.php?t=43003
Your statement has nothing to do with the thread.

What are you talking about Umer Farooq?
Do you mean this user: http://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/member.php?u=77570 ?
He last entered the forum at 6-6-2010.

Bertus

 

Didn't he play shortstop for the Phillies back in 1937?

 

So he's a Buddhist?

Wouldn't have guessed it from the name...

 

@#12, I doesn't appear they got the joke.

 

At least somebody got it! LOL!

Searching for the name Umer_Farooq only gets one return, but he was involved in a thread about the LM317 and did a pretty good job of driving several people nuts last June. There might have been less than a hundred posts in that thread, but it felt like several hundred! The thing about, "an answer only gets a new question" reminded me of him.

 

Im here for ya buddy.

Us comedians gotta stick together.

 

All forums have em, Umer has a language barrier, almost no electronics skills and a handful of parts that weren't suitable for what he wanted and no parts stores.

Now on another electronic forum there was a Walters and his geetar. No language barrier but instead...

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence. Competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. "Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.

 

Thanks for the Dunning-Kruger information. I have recognized my mistake in assuming other people my age must have similar experiences, and so, similar knowledge, "equivalent understanding". I thought that mistake was a personal problem, possibly peculiar to me. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

Another thanks to retched. This isn't the first one-liner I've flopped with on this site.

 

Another thanks to retched. This isn't the first one-liner I've flopped with on this site.

Oh, I know the awkward silence of a flopped joke well.

You can even hear the silence , or cricket chirps, on a forum.

 

I don't get it So umer is #12

 

Oh golly, no! I am not Umer_Farooq. I don't live in India. I don't ask question after endless question while seeming to ignore the answers I am getting.

 

Thanks for the Dunning-Kruger information. I have recognized my mistake in assuming other people my age must have similar experiences, and so, similar knowledge, "equivalent understanding". I thought that mistake was a personal problem, possibly peculiar to me. Glad to know I'm not the only one.

Another thanks to retched. This isn't the first one-liner I've flopped with on this site.

The comment was aimed at Umer not you #12

 

Phew!! I thought Umer had makeover

 

@blueroom

I easily see how Umer was described, but I also saw one of my personal traits, "competent people falsely assume that others have equivalent understanding". I chronically assume that people around me are very similar to me in life experience and the understanding of their experiences, except for my specialized field of study. In the forums, I tend to assume people are very much like me, including the study of electronics, except there are also beginners here. This sometimes causes misunderstandings. The good part is that I have become aware of this tendency and try to compensate by being more aware of how much I do NOT know about each person I interact with.