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What screams "poorly educated"? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 years ago by Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] bob@lemmy.havocperil.uk 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I mean, you can sum it up in a sentence. Is it really that complex?

"People with poor knowledge, experience or skill in an area tend to overestimate their ability in that area."

Is your beef that people tend to conflate lack of skill or knowledge with low intelligence, which is not what the DK effect says?

[–] optissima@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm assuming they get told they suffer from DK a lot haha

[–] abclop99@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

"Mount Stupid" vs everyone thinking they're above average

[–] caffeine@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Your summary is correct. However, most people use the Dunning-Kruger effect to describe individuals with low intelligence as arrogant. Another issue is that most people as soon as they learn about the effect think that they’ve become immune to it.

[–] towerful@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

All it does for me is double down the imposter-syndrome.
I'm not good at this... People keep hiring me, maybe I'm alright at it. Dunning-Kuger is a thing, maybe my "people keep hiring me" ego is making me blind.
And yet, every day I do cool things, I learn new cool things, I redo old things with my new knowledge
But still... I'm just pretending