Two Peas In a Pod
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(This poem was written to reassure the poet's best friend who needlessly suffers from the Dunning-Kruger Effect, a cognitive bias whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a certain type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. Some researchers also include in their definition the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. The best friend, the poet feels, unnecessarily suffers from the opposite effect of the Dunning-Kruger Effect for high performers because of low self-esteem caused by childhood bullying by both peers and teachers in both lower and upper secondary school.)
We're off the charts alone! But we're
more off the charts together—a fact
that's evident and plainly clear.
Though opposites, they say, attract,
we are apart (but we adhere,
as two best friends who interact).
Each one more than one in a billion,
you and I rule the normal curve:
a point that's no sin or rude penillion,
but a blessing that we both deserve.
More than one in a hundred quintillion
together, we're the Federal Reserve!
We are like two peas in a pod,
with brains in quantum entanglement.
It's spooky how chance works, and odd,
how two minds so intelligent
can intersect in life. Only God
can be this good and benevolent!
Copyright © Ngoc Nguyen | Year Posted 2021
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