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   Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 23:25:19 JST Charlie Stross

   • Baldur Bjarnason

   People in tech have Dunning-Kruger syndrome about people in literally every other way of life/profession @baldur

   https://toot.cafe/@baldur/112031199817039932

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 23:25:15 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     • Mark Levison

     @mlevison @cstross @baldur As an alternative to D-K, I'd like to offer the (hypothetical) "celebrity expert syndrome". People who are celebrated for their work in one field tend to be given a licence to exercise their authority in other fields. Some of them then have a big enough ego and little enough self-awareness to actually form prescriptive statements on things they know nothing about. This can become a community trend, too.

     I have an example for this from outside tech.

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     Mark Levison (mlevison@agilealliance.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 23:25:16 JST Mark Levison

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     • Baldur Bjarnason

     @cstross Interesting. I try to avoid the use of the label because the effect doesn’t exist. This article summarizes it well: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/how-do-you-know/202012/dunning-kruger-isnt-real

     @baldur

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 23:25:17 JST Charlie Stross

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     • Baldur Bjarnason
     • Mark Levison

     @mlevison @baldur I am aware the original paper had flaws, yes. It still seems to describe a recognizable thing (the inverse of imposter syndrome).

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     Mark Levison (mlevison@agilealliance.social)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 23:25:18 JST Mark Levison

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     • Baldur Bjarnason

     @cstross @baldur Forgive the intrusion from a stranger. Are you aware that Dunning-Kruger likely isn’t a real effect?

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Sunday, 03-Mar-2024 23:28:59 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     • Baldur Bjarnason
     • Mark Levison

     @mlevison @cstross @baldur in 2010 there was an airplane crash that killed a few dozen top Polish officials, diplomats, military officers etc. including the president of the country. There was an investigation that concluded it was a perfect storm of human error and negligence.

     There were also conspiracy theories peddled, among others, by people with PhDs in everything but airplane accidents (including things like history or medicine). "this guy must be right because he has PhD", basically.