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ulizzle | 2 years ago

It was actually hilarious but I don’t think many people here got the irony

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DangitBobby|2 years ago

Literally the closing paragraph of TFA is about that exact irony.

robwwilliams|2 years ago

And here it is from OP (which made me laugh—right or wrong). And leave your hubris at home unless you rate yourself a damn fine statistician ;-)

“However, there is a delightful irony to the circumstances of their blunder. Here are two Ivy League professors7 arguing that unskilled people have a ‘dual burden’: not only are unskilled people ‘incompetent’ … they are unaware of their own incompetence.

“The irony is that the situation is actually reversed. In their seminal paper, Dunning and Kruger are the ones broadcasting their (statistical) incompetence by conflating autocorrelation for a psychological effect. In this light, the paper’s title may still be appropriate. It’s just that it was the authors (not the test subjects) who were ‘unskilled and unaware of it’.