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I think this article would've made more sense if it had a title "The Dunning-Kruger effect is regression toward the mean", because that's what the author is act
by eterevsky 3y ago
I think this article would've made more sense if it had a title "The Dunning-Kruger effect is regression toward the mean", because that's what the author is actually showing.
- tgv 3y agoI think your description is the most apt. OP's own analysis shows that using random data (two variables uniformly distributed over the same range!) for both skill and self-assessment results in a different graph. The original comparison therefor implies another effect on the second dimension, which could be interpreted as: people don't estimate their skills correctly, but drift towards the mean. But then the question becomes: what did they really ask their subjects? To pick the percentile or a true test score?