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Podcast: PRay TeLL, Dr. Hash
Episode: 1469 Dunning-Kruger Effect is a Sham
Description: Among the intelligentsia, the “Dunning-Kruger effect” is often smugly cited: it’s the idea that people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities while people with exceptional ability underestimate theirs. This is an attractive excuse for narcissists to feel superior, proving they’re special, and with a semblance of scientific rigor to support their claim. In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence. Of course, the people making this claim see themselves as the superior ones, never even considering that perhaps they’ve misinterpreted the analysis...