> I am the one getting stupider, or was stupid all along, and so I don’t have the cognitive strength to accurately judge the stupidity level around me, and just

> I am the one getting stupider, or was stupid all along, and so I don’t have the cognitive strength to accurately judge the stupidity level around me, and just happen to be thinking it is getting worse because I don’t know any better. (Dunning-Kruger effect) The Dunning-Kruger meme needs to go away. The popular understanding of it demonstrated here is wrong. Contrary to popular opinion, Dunning-Kruger did not demonstrate that some people are too stupid to judge their own abilities, nor that confidence is inversely correlated with ability. In fact the data in the experiment show the opposite: the main figure in the paper shows a positive correlation between confidence and ability, and the whole thing is just speculating about why the correlation is less than 1. https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-and-isnt/ https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-... I do not believe stupidity is increasing, and there are measurable social indicators that back this up, such as rate of education, re-normalizing of standardized tests, global use of technology, etc. The post I just linked to has a plausible explanation: regression to the mean. More samples as you grow means your samples are getting more average over time.