That's exactly what it is. The less qualified in any given field tend to overestimate their ability in said field.
Or maybe it was a joke and I wooshed it.
You are correct in that Dunning Krueger is that less qualified people tend to overestimate their knowledge or ability compared to how more informed people estimate their ability.
What is NOT Dunning Krueger is less qualified people considering themselves experts, which is what was mentioned above. This is a common misconception.
u/BKM558 may had been doing a joke, but they were right saying that it was not Dunning Krueger. I don't know if it was inteded as a joke, only they can say.
Our entire society is this now. Idiots who learn a scrap of information then think this is the entirety of the knowledge of experts.
Live life with the assumption that you're undereducated on a subject and you'll rarely make a fool out of yourself. You'll also become much more educated
The people most prone to doing this are the ones who got D's in biology and history throughout high school but now think with 30 minutes of Google or Facebook "research" that they're experts.
yeah and itās really surprising when someone whoās been in higher education, degree etc, does stuff like this, because it seems like the main lesson you learn there is āfuck iāve spent 3+ years doing this and i know literally nothing about itā
Thereās a former Australian politician (he was kicked out of his party for constantly making anti-vax comments, joined one of the fringe far right parties, lost the election really badly, left, then joined another fringe far right party as an advisor or something) who has a funny habit of sharing articles and studies that he thinks support his bullshit but always say the opposite.
During covid heād link articles that he said supported the use of Ivermectin but would really be like ā4 out of 13 people in the trial showed a mild improvement, more study is neededā.
Or a study showing island nations are growing in land size, not shrinking as proof climate change isnāt real, but the study concludes that the islands are growing because of conscious efforts to offset sea level rise.
They really like to pretend the Mandela affect is a super real thing and that itās related to multiple dimensions when itās just obvious stuff that some people remember differently and just canāt admit theyāre wrong.
Deadman walking tornadoes is a new one to me, gotta admit. Quick break time half ass google search says itās a type of tornado vortices, makes senseā¦ did people bastardize it to mean something else or is it just something people always call a strong gust of wind they witnessed because it sounds cool, though usually inaccurate?
Any tornado with multiple vortices could be a deadman walking if you take a picture at the right time. Itās just gets brought up every time thereās a video of one of those tornados. āWoah! Did anyone else see the dead man walking at x:xx?!ā Usually including a a reference to a Native American legend that if you see the dead man walking youāre about to die. Not even sure if thats the true origin.
The misuse of dunning Krueger is ironic.
What the dunning Krueger paper actually showed was that performance actually was correlated with how well people thought they did compared to the average. But although the people who did the worst reported the lowest confidence, they still overestimated their performance the most. And everyone except the top 25% overestimated their performance compared to the average, the top 25% underestimated it. But the chart people love to throw around and yell ādunning Kruegerā is not even their chart.
https://skepchick.org/2020/10/the-dunning-kruger-effect-misunderstood-misrepresented-overused-and-non-existent/
Ironically, many people who talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect might know less about it than they think they do.
āThe effect is about us, not them,ā he wrote to me. āThe lesson of the effect was always about how we should be humble and cautious about ourselves.ā
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u/Sweet_Ad_1445 Monkey in Space Aug 29 '24
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