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The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias first highlighted in literature by David Dunning and Justin Kruger in the (now-famous) 1999 study Unskilled and unaware of it: How difficulties in recognizing one’s own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. https://www.zmescience.com/science/t...hPWeWZWr01eDJ0
Apparently everyone is guilty of this and it works in two directions:
(1) People of low ability are unaware or unable to think accurately about themselves and think more highly of themselves than they should; and
(2) conversely, those with high cognitive ability are unable to relate accurately to others and think that since it’s easy for me, it must be easy for everyone.
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Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein relatively unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. The bias was first experimentally observed by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University in 1999.
I think I'm a little of both, if that's even possible (?)
I really don't know. I don't assume anything about how my intelligence compares with others much, and I don't imagine myself as being superior to most people at all. Infact I have quite low self-esteem so I have "anti-Dunning-Kreuger effect".
Other than taking tests on smartness/stupidity/IQ and having my score compared to others percentile wise, so I can know 4 sure, I can't be in a position to compare myself with others and won't make that speculation.
It's important to be humble in life. I think we all know that quite often we don't understand something someone says or does because we don't have the skills/competence to, but some pretend to get it and others just accept that they can't know everything or be as smart as somebody else. It's very obvious to see when someone is playing at this pretense of trying to look smart when they are full of bull however and it's quite cute.
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