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Does that mean the Dunning-Krueger effect has no basis in truth?

• JohnBerea 4y ago
  I'm from the internet and I can assure you it has no basis in truth.
• maxbond 4y ago
  ETA: see response Probably not no basis, Dunning and Krueger really did so research & found [retracted] a negative correlation between self-rated ability and performance on an aptitude test afaik [/retracted]. But it's often overgeneralized or taken to be some kind of law rather than an observation.
  • dragonwriter 4y ago
    > Dunning and Krueger really did so research & find a negative correlation between self-rated ability and performance on an aptitude test afaik No, they didn't. They found a positive linear relation with between actual and self-assessed relative performance, with the intersection point at around the 70th percentile. (That is, people on average report themselves closer to the 70th percentile than they are, those below erring higher and those above erring lower.) The (self-rated rank) - (actual rank) difference goes up as actual rank goes down, but that's not self-rated ability going up with reduced ability.
    • maxbond 4y ago
      You're right, I misremembered/misspoke. I've edited my comment to make that clear. Thank you for the correction.