• bob@lemmy.havocperil.uk
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    1 year ago

    I mean, you can sum it up in a sentence. Is it really that complex?

    “People with poor knowledge, experience or skill in an area tend to overestimate their ability in that area.”

    Is your beef that people tend to conflate lack of skill or knowledge with low intelligence, which is not what the DK effect says?

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      1 year ago

      Your summary is correct. However, most people use the Dunning-Kruger effect to describe individuals with low intelligence as arrogant. Another issue is that most people as soon as they learn about the effect think that they’ve become immune to it.