Yeah, 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 th

Yeah, 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.