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It's funny and very paradoxical, because all this is based on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, they even ask professor Dunning about how it's possible that someone th
by mromanuk 6y ago
It's funny and very paradoxical, because all this is based on the Dunning-Kruger Effect, they even ask professor Dunning about how it's possible that someone think their (low) abilities are overestimated and probably he is suffering of the very definition of Dunning-Kruger Effect:
The Dunning-Kruger effect is nice, but it's not reproducible at best, and probably it's not real [1] [2]
1: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-...
2: https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol10/iss1/art4/ https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/numeracy/vol10/iss1/art4/
- Verdex 6y agoYeah, Dunning-Kruger feels like a way for people to rationalize away people who they don't like that project confidence. Oh, it's just Dunning-Kruger, I saw them make a mistake once, so they're not really smart. The Dunning-Kruger experiment really only seems to indicate that we shouldn't trust self assessments. Not that there are hoards of confident people out there who will never know how terrible they are. If anything, Dunning-Kruger tells use that we know less about the world than certain study methodologies would suggest. However, people instead grab it and insist that it lets us know more about the world.
- D13Fd 6y agoThis was my first thought as well. The Dunning-Kruger effect is poorly supported, but people pass it around like it's a divine revelation.