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I might be in the minority here but I have a hard time understanding why the Dunning-Kruger effect is interesting in the first place. The only real value I can
by philk 16y ago
I might be in the minority here but I have a hard time understanding why the Dunning-Kruger effect is interesting in the first place. The only real value I can see is to give bloggers a bit of pop psychology to throw into their articles.
- ryne 16y agoI find it interesting but not to the extent its permeated conversation outside of psychology. I remember cognitive dissonance had a similar standing in pop psychology a while back.
- niels_olson 16y agoI stumbled across this in my data from a survey of study habits vs performance in medical school. I didn't know it had a name at the time. Think of this from an employer's point of view, or a client's. Your employees (or contractors) think they're awesome, and thanks to the fundamental attribution error, you assume their confidence reflects competence. But, oh, how wrong you are.
- philk 16y agoBut it's not even that exciting. Your lousy employees think they're pretty good and your great employees think they're a bit better, but not awesome. I suppose the main lesson you can draw from this is that you need to assess your employees performance independently, but I'm not sure that's a surprising conclusion.
- scrame 16y agoIt might be that said bloggers are in the throws of the Dunning-Kruger effect. And possibly trying to suss out which side they are on, by asserting that they understand it through a blog post.