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Competence is the ability to perform some task. Incompetence is its opposite.
- Competence (biology), a cell or a bacterium incorporating DNA into its genome
- Competence (human resources), a standardized requirement for an individual to properly perform a specific job
- Administrative incompetence, dysfunctional administrative behaviors that hinder attainment of organization goals
- Military incompetence, failures of members of the military
- Darwin Awards, death by incompetence
- Dunning-Kruger Syndrome, unskilled and unaware of it
- Hanlon's Razor, Never attribute to malice...
- Competence (law), the mental capacity of an individual to participate in legal proceedings
- Incompetence (book), a novel by Red Dwarf co-creator Rob Grant
[edit] See also
- Skill
- Skills management
- Competence management
