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You're right. And it's the adult version of "everybody gets a trophy" in that we all by default assume each other equally capable. Look at every single answer t
by allovernow 7y ago
You're right. And it's the adult version of "everybody gets a trophy" in that we all by default assume each other equally capable. Look at every single answer that pops up on the academic exchange forum - someone inevitably brings up impostor syndrome, almost no one, except in extreme cases, ever suggests that maybe someone is in the wrong field or in over their head.
- monoideism 7y agoYes, but then again, Dunning-Krueger effect is quite real -- I've seen it. And you know who never has to worry about Dunning-Krueger in a given field? Folks with "impostor syndrome" in that field. Yes, it's possible that some folks with traits of impostor syndrome are genuinely incompetent and incapable of learning a given field, but much more likely that it's something the opposite of Dunning-Krueger at play. And as a software developer, I've seen many more genuinely incompetent people with Dunning-Krueger than I have genuinely incompetent people with imposter syndrome. There's always the rare supremely-confident 10x developer, but as a general rule, people with no zero doubt in software development make me very nervous, because I've send it turn out badly much more than I've seen it turn out well.