> Author's take on Dunning-Kruger is a strawman. That wasn't the author's take on DK, that was the author's take on the pop sci version of DK, very different.

> Author's take on Dunning-Kruger is a strawman. That wasn't the author's take on DK, that was the author's take on the pop sci version of DK, very different. It is definitely a straw man, one which David Dunning has also publicly criticized, so the author's in good company. Here's an episode of This American Life where Dunning claims that he created a meme (his word), but that people misuse DK as an epithet targeted against stupid people, missing the fact that this applies to all of us: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/585/transcript http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/585/t... If you want to see how most people talk about DK, David Dunning runs a quick search on Twitter. I don't think the median depth of understanding on DK is quite as high as you expect...