> The darling of those who wish to explain why incompetent people don’t know they’re unskilled, the Dunning-Kruger effect may actually just be a data artefact.

> The darling of those who wish to explain why incompetent people don’t know they’re unskilled, the Dunning-Kruger effect may actually just be a data artefact. This doesn't strike me as true. Or rather, I don't think that it's a significant observation that some people may want to try to explain why some people are incompetent. In my experience, people don't try to "explain" incompetence in general. They will rather talk about specifics - e.g. "Some people believe this because of the misconception that X implies Y". Even if their own rationale is incorrect. This is very different to saying that "They are stupid because they don't know that they are stupid". Yeah it may come up as a flippant comment about an individual (or "fringe" group like the Flat Earth Society) in casual conversation, but when I consider how much I've read about and discussed the DK effect, I can't say that the implications as stated in that the quoted piece actually has a significant basis in reality. In other words, DK may be the "darling" of said group, but the self-same group is not very significant in any way in my experience. YMMV.