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Seemingly unrelated, I just saw some post on /new that was saying Dunning-Kruger had been debunked by some recent study. It looked pretty sus so I kagi'ed it an
by rfarley04 2mo ago
Seemingly unrelated, I just saw some post on /new that was saying Dunning-Kruger had been debunked by some recent study. It looked pretty sus so I kagi'ed it and lo and behold guess what came up:
https://spacedaily.com/j-v-the-dunning-kruger-effect-mapped-by-two-cornell-psychologists-in-1999-found-that-the-least-skilled-people-often-vastly-overrate-their-ability-while-top-performers-tend-to-judge-themselves-more/ https://spacedaily.com/j-v-the-dunning-kruger-effect-mapped-...
- eru 2mo agoThe 'Dunning-Kruger effect' of internet folklore is not what was in the original paper. And the original paper hasn't held up to well either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#Statistical_and_better-than-average_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#... (and Wikipedia is very mild and nice to the authors). See eg https://replicationindex.com/2020/09/13/the-dunning-kruger-effect-explained/ https://replicationindex.com/2020/09/13/the-dunning-kruger-e...