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No article relying on references to Dunning Krueger is complete without a comment pointing out the Gell-Mann amnesia effect. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi
by salawat 5y ago
No article relying on references to Dunning Krueger is complete without a comment pointing out the Gell-Mann amnesia effect.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnesiaEffect https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmn...
To wit, a newspaper, telling people to trust experts, whose words are indelibly communicated by... Expert reporters of course!
Really need to stop even bothering to read the Times. Tends to do nothing but ruin my day.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 5y agoDavid Dunning is one of the authors of the article.
- salawat 5y agoI expected far more depth out of them than "I wrote this paper on e, and found that people in general adapt their behavior to a particular curve based on their habitual exposure to the unknown. And I've not seen follow up work of the Dunning-Krueger curve taking into account prior knowledge of Dinning-Krueger either. So no points there. Thirdly, I'm pretty sure everybody doing self-assessment a du jour at workplaces can be in some way attributed to this fellow's work. This does not currently get you points in my book.