[Rantenki]

This paper runs very parallel to Dunning-Kruger, and it's surprising that nobody here has commented on it (although the paper itself DOES reference Dunning-Kruger). It's a bit sad, really. When you realize that most people that buy into this stuff are trapped by a lack of cognitive ability, rather than being rooted in malice. There's a dose of https://harmful.cat-v.org/people/basic-laws-of-human-stupidi... in there too, as even well educated, otherwise intelligent people can get trapped in these conspiracy theories.

"Conspiracy believers not only consistently overestimated their performance on numeracy and perception tests"...

Compared to:

"The Dunning–Kruger effect is defined as the tendency of people with low ability in a specific area to give overly positive assessments of this ability."

[intended]

I saw that as well, it reminded me of dunning-krueger immediately. Although in this case, they assume not only that they reasoned correctly, but that their position is the median position for the population.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

Although, from what I can tell, there’s a lot of new evidence that the Dunning–Kruger effect is an artifact of the experimental protocol and not some interesting fact about psychology.