Timeline for Is there a word for the phrase "I don't know what I don't know"?
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| Aug 21, 2015 at 3:14 | answer | added | Yolanda | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 27, 2014 at 9:15 | answer | added | Paul Botha | timeline score: 0 | |
| Oct 10, 2013 at 15:41 | vote | accept | delliottg | ||
| S Oct 8, 2013 at 2:29 | history | suggested | Jack Ryan |
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| Oct 8, 2013 at 1:25 | comment | added | Bob Davies |
I quite often use the term Unknown unknowns when discussing potential threats or opportunities to project development. This term was popularised (afaik) by Rumsfeld's poorly delivered (but surprisingly relevant) speech.
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| Oct 8, 2013 at 1:07 | answer | added | Jack Ryan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 20:43 | comment | added | delliottg | I'm of two minds with ignorant, it implies that I'm not working to learn, or that those who are tasked with teaching me the intricacies are deliberately withholding, neither of which are the case. However, someone who is uneducated in a certain thing can be said to be ignorant of that thing which doesn't necessarily imply that they're stupid or whatever, they just don't know about that thing. (see FriendlyGreaseMonkey answer below). | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 19:59 | comment | added | Stat-R |
I would simply use ignorant for this
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| Oct 7, 2013 at 18:33 | answer | added | atk | timeline score: 3 | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 18:33 | history | edited | delliottg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Grammar
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| Oct 7, 2013 at 18:22 | comment | added | delliottg | This is a good sentiment, and one that both my peers and management are in agreement with. This server was hacked together by a scientist who didn't know how to write code using a technology it wasn't designed for (big data & XML) and then foisted on the users as "complete", except it wasn't, and had hidden pitfalls that wouldn't exhibit themselves until years later (long after he'd left the company). They know that this is a difficult project, and so the pressure to get it done is tempered with the knowledge that it ain't so easy to do. | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 18:16 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/387280226369437696 | ||
| Oct 7, 2013 at 17:55 | comment | added | iterums | Not a word, but I thought of Rome wasn't built in a day. | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 17:01 | comment | added | delliottg | We call it "tribal knowledge" (every software house I've worked at does), but it's the same thing as "Sacred Knowledge". And yes, Socrates would be approving. | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 16:59 | history | rollback | delliottg |
Rollback to Revision 1
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| Oct 7, 2013 at 16:44 | answer | added | JeffSahol | timeline score: 2 | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 16:40 | history | edited | Edwin Ashworth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
clarification; correcting grammar
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| Oct 7, 2013 at 16:39 | comment | added | Talia Ford | Well at least you know there are things that you don't know about not knowing. Socrates would aprove. | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 16:38 | review | First posts | |||
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| Oct 7, 2013 at 16:34 | comment | added | Armen Ծիրունյան | At my workplace we call it "Sacred Knowlegde", something that is not documented anywhere and is just known by several people who eventually leave the company :) | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 16:34 | answer | added | userNaN | timeline score: 5 | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 16:29 | comment | added | rajah9 | I don't have a single word, but author David DeLong calls this "lost knowledge." amazon.com/Lost-Knowledge-Confronting-Threat-Workforce/dp/…. His book describes, for example, how NASA has a lot of information about landing a man on the moon, but would be unable to do so today because of the lost knowledge. | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 16:29 | answer | added | GreaseMonkey | timeline score: -4 | |
| Oct 7, 2013 at 16:23 | history | asked | delliottg | CC BY-SA 3.0 |