The Dunning Kruger Effect
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Date: 2023-08-20
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PD
You have no idea what a huge problem this is!
There is scientific evidence, that an entire field is nothing else than Dunning Kruger!
They call themselves Epidemiologists and people actually believed them that what they do were actually science!
They used to confuse correlation with causality, but when there was not even a correlation and they drove our entire civilization to the edge of self-destruction, real scientists realized, that it was just epidemiologismic paranoia!
Unfortunately, more than two million people lost their lives, until real scientists understood that what these idiots believed to be SARS (or atypical SARS whenever they saw they were wrong) was actually symptoms of a panic attack! They scared old people with heart diseases to death and people choking due to panicking (fear of death) were intubated and euthanized with propofol!
We are still trying to stop them!
If you want to contribute, let everyone know this!
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You have no idea what a huge problem this is!
There is scientific evidence, that an entire field is nothing else than Dunning Kruger!
They call themselves Epidemiologists and people actually believed them that what they do were actually science!
They used to confuse correlation with causality, but when there was not even a correlation and they drove our entire civilization to the edge of self-destruction, real scientists realized, that it was just epidemiologismic paranoia!
Unfortunately, more than two million people lost their lives, until real scientists understood that what these idiots believed to be SARS (or atypical SARS whenever they saw they were wrong) was actually symptoms of a panic attack! They scared old people with heart diseases to death and people choking due to panicking (fear of death) were intubated and euthanized with propofol!
We are still trying to stop them!
If you want to contribute, let everyone know this!
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Athena
What you are describing is a combination of the Confirmation Bias and the Overconfidence effect. It is NOT Dunning-Kruger. Dunning-Kruger is a very specific theory that ties the ability to assess one's own capability in a given area with actual competence in the same area. In other words, people who are good at doing something are also able to assess their own competence, as well as other's, with a high degree of accuracy, whereas people who are bad at doing something believe that they are the most competent of all. Their theory says that the same area of the brain that gives competence in a given area is ALSO used to assess competency, so someone who is bad at that behavior is also bad at assessing competence. IE, if you are incompetent at something, you'll believe that you are the best in the world at it. And nothing can convince you otherwise.
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What you are describing is a combination of the Confirmation Bias and the Overconfidence effect. It is NOT Dunning-Kruger. Dunning-Kruger is a very specific theory that ties the ability to assess one's own capability in a given area with actual competence in the same area. In other words, people who are good at doing something are also able to assess their own competence, as well as other's, with a high degree of accuracy, whereas people who are bad at doing something believe that they are the most competent of all. Their theory says that the same area of the brain that gives competence in a given area is ALSO used to assess competency, so someone who is bad at that behavior is also bad at assessing competence. IE, if you are incompetent at something, you'll believe that you are the best in the world at it. And nothing can convince you otherwise.
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chocoboasylum
Didn't they do a test once where subjects were given a paper to look through and asked to pick an article they particularly agreed with? Then they put the paper aside and did something else for a while after which the subject was given the paper again and asked to turn the pages to the article they had agreed with to explain why they agreed with it so much.
Even though this paper they had been given had very similar looking headlines all of the headlines were changed so they represented the opposing opinion instead and still people would defend the article they had 'chosen' earlier instead of going 'Oh, wait, I thought it meant X but turns out it actually says Y'. Odd.
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Didn't they do a test once where subjects were given a paper to look through and asked to pick an article they particularly agreed with? Then they put the paper aside and did something else for a while after which the subject was given the paper again and asked to turn the pages to the article they had agreed with to explain why they agreed with it so much.
Even though this paper they had been given had very similar looking headlines all of the headlines were changed so they represented the opposing opinion instead and still people would defend the article they had 'chosen' earlier instead of going 'Oh, wait, I thought it meant X but turns out it actually says Y'. Odd.
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xDR1TeK
Victims of our own delusions. Yet the more I learn, the more I am convinced I know nothing. My 2 pound brain can't outgrow the confinds of my encephalon and yet again I falter. The thing I know though, people adore labels. They adore the fact they can call similar members of their own faulty species as clinically sick. The fact that remains we are all deluded to think we are hiding in our own minds. Our actions reveal how insane we are when examined by academic psychology. Perfection is a failing quest. With all that extra baggage we carry in our psychy, I am consoled by how well we shine through adversity. Some call it a moment of redemption. Some call it confirmation bias.
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Victims of our own delusions. Yet the more I learn, the more I am convinced I know nothing. My 2 pound brain can't outgrow the confinds of my encephalon and yet again I falter. The thing I know though, people adore labels. They adore the fact they can call similar members of their own faulty species as clinically sick. The fact that remains we are all deluded to think we are hiding in our own minds. Our actions reveal how insane we are when examined by academic psychology. Perfection is a failing quest. With all that extra baggage we carry in our psychy, I am consoled by how well we shine through adversity. Some call it a moment of redemption. Some call it confirmation bias.
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FalloutJack
There must be either a mistaken identity or pure ego going into that Lie Witness bit. You can't describe a band you've never heard of. So, either they mistook what band you meant and they're describing the band they think they mean or it is in fact an attempt to look knowledgeable for sheer ego. The latter is just pointless. Why bother? But in the former, it must be a misremembered fact - i. e. the name of a band you HAVE heard of - to be able to actually go into detail. Basically, some of these will be a truth, but the wrong truth.
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There must be either a mistaken identity or pure ego going into that Lie Witness bit. You can't describe a band you've never heard of. So, either they mistook what band you meant and they're describing the band they think they mean or it is in fact an attempt to look knowledgeable for sheer ego. The latter is just pointless. Why bother? But in the former, it must be a misremembered fact - i. e. the name of a band you HAVE heard of - to be able to actually go into detail. Basically, some of these will be a truth, but the wrong truth.
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BisexualBitch
I have an ex that used to act like he knew everything about anything and i was always so annoyed when he started arguing about medicine with my friend that is on the way of becoming a doctor or he claimed to know sooo much about mental health and then we got into fights bc i have some mental health issues and he thought he knew more than me.
I broke up with him so it's fine
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I have an ex that used to act like he knew everything about anything and i was always so annoyed when he started arguing about medicine with my friend that is on the way of becoming a doctor or he claimed to know sooo much about mental health and then we got into fights bc i have some mental health issues and he thought he knew more than me.
I broke up with him so it's fine
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Blackie
I don't give a flying Wallenda what people think. If I don't know something, I'll admit it. If I am confident I know more than some/most other people on something, I'll assert that too. People can go screw themselves if they think I am ignorant on this or delusionalor misinformed about that, or have a problem with me in an y way.
I know what I know. Piss off.
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I don't give a flying Wallenda what people think. If I don't know something, I'll admit it. If I am confident I know more than some/most other people on something, I'll assert that too. People can go screw themselves if they think I am ignorant on this or delusionalor misinformed about that, or have a problem with me in an y way.
I know what I know. Piss off.
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R.
How about not acting like a know-it-all asshole?
Jimmy Kimmel could have asked me that question and I would have responded, Who the hell are they?
Some people just can't handle not knowing something. Find a career and learn everything there is to know about that and be good at your job instead of destroying you brain with pop culture.
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How about not acting like a know-it-all asshole?
Jimmy Kimmel could have asked me that question and I would have responded, Who the hell are they?
Some people just can't handle not knowing something. Find a career and learn everything there is to know about that and be good at your job instead of destroying you brain with pop culture.
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Willow
i never studied and i knew i was going to fail, especially when i made stuff up. I doubt this effect, it only really comes into effect with other personalty disorders. However with reflecting i noticed this effect happened on me today. Have to keep this in the back of my mine, when i am a noob at something don't act like a know it all.
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i never studied and i knew i was going to fail, especially when i made stuff up. I doubt this effect, it only really comes into effect with other personalty disorders. However with reflecting i noticed this effect happened on me today. Have to keep this in the back of my mine, when i am a noob at something don't act like a know it all.
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Steve
Now that I watched this video after hearing the term Dunning Kruger effect for the first time today, I am a MASTER at understanding the Dunning Kruger effect, And for just $15 per hour per person I will teach classes about the Dunning Kruger effect.
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Now that I watched this video after hearing the term Dunning Kruger effect for the first time today, I am a MASTER at understanding the Dunning Kruger effect, And for just $15 per hour per person I will teach classes about the Dunning Kruger effect.
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Kibbies
So, Desi Arnez never said
Lucy, you've got some splaining to do on the I love Lucy show.
And, Rod Serling is the host of the Twilight Zone. (Not Rod Sterling.
Are these the Kruger effect, or the Mandela effect? (Or, one of each?
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So, Desi Arnez never said
Lucy, you've got some splaining to do on the I love Lucy show.
And, Rod Serling is the host of the Twilight Zone. (Not Rod Sterling.
Are these the Kruger effect, or the Mandela effect? (Or, one of each?
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eXtremeDR
Consider the following: Knowledge is infinite, that means regardless how much someone knows, its close to ZERO compared to what can be known. That means that everyone is affected by the Dunning-Kruger-Effect _
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Consider the following: Knowledge is infinite, that means regardless how much someone knows, its close to ZERO compared to what can be known. That means that everyone is affected by the Dunning-Kruger-Effect _
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TheEarthRealm
0: 40 - You compared someone with very limited knowledge on a subject to an 'intelligent person', rather than a well-informed person.
Thus deeming the less knowledgeable person to be unintelligent.
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0: 40 - You compared someone with very limited knowledge on a subject to an 'intelligent person', rather than a well-informed person.
Thus deeming the less knowledgeable person to be unintelligent.
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The
1: 09 I'm actually right in the middle. I walk in with a panicked sense of mind, sit down and do damn good on the test without studying, and then walk out, second guessing myself later that night.
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1: 09 I'm actually right in the middle. I walk in with a panicked sense of mind, sit down and do damn good on the test without studying, and then walk out, second guessing myself later that night.
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Jalen
Except now dunning Kruger is used as a throw away insult. What's worse is people use it in conversation about philosophy and politics which is mostly all opinion.
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Except now dunning Kruger is used as a throw away insult. What's worse is people use it in conversation about philosophy and politics which is mostly all opinion.
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Marcus
What do you call it when someone asks you if youve seen a movie, and you tell them no, and then they continue to talk about the movie as if youve said yes?
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What do you call it when someone asks you if youve seen a movie, and you tell them no, and then they continue to talk about the movie as if youve said yes?
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ZackMorrisMyHero
This video is a perfect troll. If you'd never heard of the Dunning Kruger effect before but now COMPLETELY understand it within 3 minutes. well.
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This video is a perfect troll. If you'd never heard of the Dunning Kruger effect before but now COMPLETELY understand it within 3 minutes. well.
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Amaravi
In the Jimmy Kimmel example, maybe people just lie about knowing the band because they know playing along will make them more likely to be shown on TV
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In the Jimmy Kimmel example, maybe people just lie about knowing the band because they know playing along will make them more likely to be shown on TV
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Tyrawr
Nobody:
Me: I have not studied science but I have watched a million science videos with stephen hawing
Also me: gets highest in science.
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Nobody:
Me: I have not studied science but I have watched a million science videos with stephen hawing
Also me: gets highest in science.
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Russ
Donald Trump definitely fits this criteria, he knows more about most subjects than anybody else and he keeps telling us with regularity
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Donald Trump definitely fits this criteria, he knows more about most subjects than anybody else and he keeps telling us with regularity
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Green98
Often ignorance is power, comfort and satisfaction. Being halfway between ignorant and wise is the realm where suffering takes place
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Often ignorance is power, comfort and satisfaction. Being halfway between ignorant and wise is the realm where suffering takes place
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Clockeye
So. the Dunning Kruger effect in a nutshell is, The less one actually knows, the more they believe they know. ? Or am I mistaken?
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So. the Dunning Kruger effect in a nutshell is, The less one actually knows, the more they believe they know. ? Or am I mistaken?
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George
what if I feel ready for a test, once I get the test I feel like I do horrible, and then I do great. What's that called? lmao
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what if I feel ready for a test, once I get the test I feel like I do horrible, and then I do great. What's that called? lmao
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Nabzarella
The subreddit r/iamverysmart is filled with examples of people who clearly don't understand this psychological concept.
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The subreddit r/iamverysmart is filled with examples of people who clearly don't understand this psychological concept.
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EmmyTweetie
I think the fake band test is a bit unfair. If you asked me I would probably confuse that band with one I kinda knew.
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I think the fake band test is a bit unfair. If you asked me I would probably confuse that band with one I kinda knew.
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