The burglar with the lemon juice disguise

[image error]I've just re-read the classic study "Unskilled and unaware of it" which established that when we're incompetent at something we're often so incompetent that we don't realise that we're incompetent. I had forgotten that it starts with a wonderful story about an inept bank robber.

In 1995, McArthur Wheeler walked into two Pittsburgh banks and robbed them in broad daylight, with no visible attempt at disguise. He was arrested later that night, less than an hour after videotapes of him taken from...