The Dunning Kruger effect is a lovely finding, which seems to suggest that the cognitively incompetent are too incompetent to realise that they are incompetent. They over-estimate their abilities. Brighter people are more aware of their short-comings, and under-estimate their abilities.
This is wrong unfortunately. The Wikipedia entry for Illusory Superiority has far too many examples for DKE to be false. It also makes sense from an evolutionary psychology point of view - as I explain in my article: https://windsorswan.substack.com/p/dunning-kruger-is-real-dumb-people
Appears to be open access, so better link to it https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289622000988
Thanks very much
I enjoy the content, this is a short post but in general, do seriously consider the inclusion of TTS (text-to-speech function) in your post’
This is wrong unfortunately. The Wikipedia entry for Illusory Superiority has far too many examples for DKE to be false. It also makes sense from an evolutionary psychology point of view - as I explain in my article: https://windsorswan.substack.com/p/dunning-kruger-is-real-dumb-people