Ginfreely & Dunning-Kruger Effect

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Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why Incompetent People Think They Are Superior

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are.

Essentially, low ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads them to overestimate their own capabilities.

The term lends a scientific name and explanation to a problem that many people immediately recognize—that fools are blind to their own foolishness. As Charles Darwin wrote in his book The Descent of Man, "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

An Overview of the Dunning-Kruger Effect

This phenomenon is something you have likely experienced in real life, perhaps around the dinner table at a holiday family gathering. Throughout the course of the meal, a member of your extended family begins spouting off on a topic at length, boldly proclaiming that he is correct and that everyone else's opinion is stupid, uninformed, and just plain wrong.

It may be plainly evident to everyone in the room that this person has no idea what he is talking about, yet he prattles on, blithely oblivious to his own ignorance.

 

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just an interesting sidenote. just adding a cultural caution to Dunning and Kruger's work. If anybody has spent anytime with a lot of Americans, they would find this effect very common. But because of cultural and educational biases, we tend to see it less often in Asian cultures. In Europe, it varies from country to country, but it's safe to say that it's less prevalent than in the US. To date, I've only identified one person on this forum subject to Dunning-Kruger.

ginfreely's issues are actually not Dunning-Kruger... they are something else... paiseh

 

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[AhMeng]

just an interesting sidenote. just adding a cultural caution to Dunning and Kruger's work. If anybody has spent anytime with a lot of Americans, they would find this effect very common. But because of cultural and educational biases, we tend to see it less often in Asian cultures. In Europe, it varies from country to country, but it's safe to say that it's less prevalent than in the US. To date, I've only identified one person on this forum subject to Dunning-Kruger.

ginfreely's issues are actually not Dunning-Kruger... they are something else... paiseh

She has a mixture of siaolang genes in her DNA ... lol