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Strong and Wrong: Google and the
Dunning-Kruger Effect
By J. Wickliffe Cauthorn
Cauthorn Nohr & Owen
[email protected]
“
L
isten, I know about the law…”
These are the most dangerous words a client can utter, and
they are the bane of many lawyers’ existence. We know what
follows will be stated with absolute certainty; we know what
follows will be defended tooth and nail; and, we know (almost
assuredly) what follows will be wrong…or, more accurately,
strong and wrong.
In the era of Google and smart phones, almost everyone has
access to all of the world’s information in the palm of their
hands. No one sits and wonders who directed Smokey and
the Bandit (Hal Needham). No one debates whether the car
used in Smokey a