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   mhoye but seasonally spooky (mhoye@cosocial.ca)'s status on Thursday, 19-Mar-2026 01:47:07 JST mhoye but seasonally spooky

   Once again I am heartbroken to remind you that the Dunning-Kruger effect is probably not real:

   https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-kruger-effect-probably-not-real

   Like Freudian psychology, Hardin's tragedy of the commons and any number of other popular pseudoscientific narratives, it caters to our preconceptions and makes fore entertaining, easy to re-tell stories, but it's also... not true.

   And - again, I am entirely saddened by this - that means that if we keep using these metaphors we're legitimizing the false ideas behind them.