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   Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 01:48:28 JST Mina

   Have you ever heard of the #DunningKruger effect?

   Generally, it is understood as

   "a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence" [wikipedia]

   This actually isn't, what the original study said, but it is still what most people think, when they hear the term.

   However, in my personal experience (anecdotal evidence) I find the most extreme levels of unfounded overconfidence about one's expertise concerning almost every aspect of life concentrated

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 01:49:52 JST Rich Felker

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     @mina I'm kinda skeptical of the whole DK narrative because of how often I've seen it wielded by people who just automatically assume someone with domain expertise in one area can't also have it on one or more other areas, basically to gatekeep & disqualify..

     But I think where it does really manifest is like what you said. Particularly, in domains whose participants have been trained to think that their domain of expertise somehow "explains" phenomena in other domains outside it. Economists would be the most obvious example of a group that have a completely unfounded such belief, but physicists kinda also fit that pattern (somehow thinking that explanations for underlying mechanisms grant understanding of complex aggregate/emergent phenomena).

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     Mina (mina@berlin.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Jun-2025 01:49:53 JST Mina

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     in representatives of certain professions:

     * teachers
     * economists
     * programmers ("software engineers" as they call themselves)
     * physicists
     * mathematicians
     * lawyers
     * MDs
     * politicians

     What do you think?

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