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Ironically, that's not what Dunning-Kruger claimed, and the Dunning-Kruger research itself has been largely discredited. A better term might be the "Dunning-Kru
by gowld 5y ago
Ironically, that's not what Dunning-Kruger claimed, and the Dunning-Kruger research itself has been largely discredited. A better term might be the "Dunning-Kruger Effect effect" for how these accusations are slung around.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#Criticism_and_alternatives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#...
- ncmncm 5y agoI like to say most citations of D-K are examples of D-K.
- cbsmith 5y agoI think my favourite bit of Dunning-Kruger is that it's failure to account for regression towards the mean and the better-than-average effect are kind of an existence proof of a "Dunning-Kruger Effect". ;-)
- mcguire 5y agoI don't think that article says what you think it says. The D-K effect is: "The Dunning-Kruger effect is defined as the tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability." That is exactly what the parent described, and is an empirically identified behavior. The criticisms are aimed mostly at the "meta-cognitive" and bias-based explanations for the behavior.