Sunday, June 14, 2020

Dunning-Kruger

(Michael, have you seen this?)
"The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are.
Essentially, when people lack the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence.
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Yeah, . . . And it's not only people we disagree with who have this cognitive bias, eh? We walk among us.😉

"How to Avoid the Dunning-Kruger Effect"
--from Psychology Today

"To avoid falling prey to the Dunning-Kruger effect, people can honestly and routinely question their knowledge base and the conclusions they draw, rather than blindly accepting them. As David Dunning proposes, people can be their own devil’s advocates, by challenging themselves to probe how they might possibly be wrong."