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Out of topic, but: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-think

Out of topic, but: https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-... > The two papers, by Dr. Ed Nuhfer and colleagues, argued that the Dunning-Kruger effect could be replicated by using random data.

kaoD 2y ago
The more I'm reading this article the less I understand their point. Is there an actual paper that describes how their "random data" is generated? I can also generate random data that looks like any distribution by carefully choosing the random distribution. What's their point?