While I like seeing the Dunning--Kruger effect pointed out here as much as the next man, I have to comment that the original study was not as simple as it is often described.
> So the bias is definitively not that incompetent people think they’re better than competent people. Rather, it’s that incompetent people think they’re much better than they actually are. But they typically still don’t think they’re quite as good as people who, you know, actually are good. (It’s important to note that Dunning and Kruger never claimed to show that the unskilled think they’re better than the skilled; that’s just the way the finding is often interpreted by others.)
Pseudomanifold|7 years ago
There's a great description on the [citation needed] blog: http://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-k...
Here's the money quote in my opinion:
> So the bias is definitively not that incompetent people think they’re better than competent people. Rather, it’s that incompetent people think they’re much better than they actually are. But they typically still don’t think they’re quite as good as people who, you know, actually are good. (It’s important to note that Dunning and Kruger never claimed to show that the unskilled think they’re better than the skilled; that’s just the way the finding is often interpreted by others.)
platform|7 years ago
obnoxiousness = ambition - competence
ransithf|7 years ago