> No, it's a specific phenomenon about lack of raw cognitive competence, like for general tasks in life, not lack of experience in a given domain. T This is a

> No, it's a specific phenomenon about lack of raw cognitive competence, like for general tasks in life, not lack of experience in a given domain. T This is a common misconception. Wikipedia has a pretty good write-up. Quoting the first paragraph: > The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task. The original paper [1] was explicit that this was domain-dependent. > The point of the DK effect was even with experience, the disparity between ones competence and awareness of ones relative competence doesn't improve. I don't think this is consistent with the literature. In the studies I'm familiar with, there is the classic Socrates effect that the people with the most skill are aware of how little they know and tend to underestimate their relative performance. So it improves significantly, but there's a slight over-correction. Quoting the original paper: > improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations of their abilities. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10626367/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10626367/