Incompetent individuals, compared with their more competent peers, will dramatically overestimate their ability and performance relative to objective criteria...Top performers tended to underestimate their own performance compared to their peers...the mos
Features Crescent city drummers such as Vernel Fournier, Baby Dodds, Ed Blackwell, James Black, Joseph "Smokey" Johnson, and David Lee. DCI Video Transcription Series. Johnny Vidacovich, Herlin Riley, Dan Thress
(ISBN 0 9627418 7 6) Sceptics about nootropics ("smart drugs") are unwitting victims of the so-called Panglossian paradigm of evolution. They believe that our cognitive architecture has been so fine-honed by natural selection that any tinkering with su
Beyond resisting the destruction & degeneration of the brain there looms also the possibility of regeneration & perhaps even augmentation. The "Smart Drug Movement" implies that this is possible -- and possible now. Here I review the subject of "Smart Dru
Though descriptive, "smart drugs" is a somewhat unfortunate phrase, smacking of snake oil and panaceas, and sounding about as scientific as Roger Ramjet's proton pills, or Popeye's spinach. If you've had such thoughts upon hearing the term smart drugs, so