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Not sure if the Dunning-Kruger effect can be applied to everything (such as: humour, grammar, etc., as listed in the article), but I think pretty much everyone

Not sure if the Dunning-Kruger effect can be applied to everything (such as: humour, grammar, etc., as listed in the article), but I think pretty much everyone who has played any kind of video game (Dota, LoL, Star Craft, CS:GO, etc.) in a competitive "try-hard" environment for long enough will assure you that the Dunning-Krueger effect is indeed real. "It's not my fault for losing this; I am clearly better than the team/oponents if it weren't for bad teammates/cheese tactics/meta abuse/lags/etc" is a mindset a lot of players have even if all evidence points to the contrary (~50% winrate in average in matches with players of similar ranking etc.). In fact, I struggled quite some time with this myself - acknowledging and understanding one's own shittiness is one of the very first steps of actual improvement, and that's usually easier said than done, at least for me personally.

NiceWayToDoIT 6y ago
Same goes for IT projects, junior developers usually have a significant confidence when facing new problem (task estimation). Their confidence sometimes comes from limited ability to see all the path that may go wrong, on the other hand senior developers although have considerable experience, sometime overthink solution because of the past experiences, and often they leave extra space for so called "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns".
1123581321 6y ago
While I've certainly seen players say those things, and agree that increasing humility is a good corrective to that character flaw, that kind of public bragging isn't indicative of their self-evaluation, and I haven't seen that expert players necessarily stop that behavior or demonstrate that humility was the key to their skill mastery.
apple4ever 6y ago
But you need to differentiate what people outwardly project is their ability and what they actual think is their ability. And then there is also the reaction in the moment vs the reaction after sometime of thinking about it.

NiceWayToDoIT 6y ago

Same goes for IT projects, junior developers usually have a significant confidence when facing new problem (task estimation). Their confidence sometimes comes from limited ability to see all the path that may go wrong, on the other hand senior developers although have considerable experience, sometime overthink solution because of the past experiences, and often they leave extra space for so called "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns".

1123581321 6y ago

While I've certainly seen players say those things, and agree that increasing humility is a good corrective to that character flaw, that kind of public bragging isn't indicative of their self-evaluation, and I haven't seen that expert players necessarily stop that behavior or demonstrate that humility was the key to their skill mastery.

apple4ever 6y ago

But you need to differentiate what people outwardly project is their ability and what they actual think is their ability. And then there is also the reaction in the moment vs the reaction after sometime of thinking about it.