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20 May 2009, 10:12 pm

The Dunning-Kruger effect is an example of cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it"[1]. They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average. This leads to a perverse result where people with less competence will rate their ability more highly than people with relatively more competence.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect


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20 May 2009, 10:18 pm

Well, it could be worse...



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20 May 2009, 10:32 pm

sinsboldly wrote:
The Dunning-Kruger effect is an example of cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it"[1]. They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average. This leads to a perverse result where people with less competence will rate their ability more highly than people with relatively more competence.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect


Is this some sort of comment about people with Asperger's syndrome?



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20 May 2009, 10:38 pm

Sand wrote:
sinsboldly wrote:
The Dunning-Kruger effect is an example of cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it"[1]. They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average. This leads to a perverse result where people with less competence will rate their ability more highly than people with relatively more competence.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect


Is this some sort of comment about people with Asperger's syndrome?


not particularly, just people in general.


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20 May 2009, 10:55 pm

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The Dunning-Kruger effect is an example of cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it"[1]. They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average.

My god it's like looking into a text based mirror :cyclopsani:


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21 May 2009, 12:15 am

twoshots, if you really did suffer from this curse, then you wouldn't think it could apply to you.

We all have a little of every disorder in us.


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21 May 2009, 12:28 am

Just a little self deprecating humor (minus the 'humor' part perhaps); it's good for the spirit, I find.


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30 Dec 2019, 9:22 am

My father thinks he is really, really smart, but in truth he is a buffoon.



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30 Dec 2019, 12:43 pm

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zoCPsOEynaY

Patrick Star sums this up perfectly.



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30 Dec 2019, 2:53 pm

The Dunning-Kruger effect can be summed up as "A little knowledge is dangerous." It is erroneously cited as "anyone with great confidence in a subject is not an expert."

Experts know the limits of their knowledge and can very confidently comment on things of which they have knowledge and very confidently say "I don't know" to things they don't know.


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