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An expert on human blind spots gives advice on how to think
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 835" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/31/18200497/dunning-kruger-effect-explained-trump" target="_blank"><strong>An expert on human blind spots gives advice on how to think - Vox</strong></a></p><p></p><p><em>How to fight the Dunning-Kruger effect, explained by psychologist David Dunning.</em></p><p></p><p>David Dunning, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, has devoted much of his career to studying the flaws in human thinking. It has kept him busy.</p><p></p><p>You might recognize Dunning’s name as half of a psychological phenomenon that feels highly relevant to the current political zeitgeist: the <a href="https://psmag.com/social-justice/confident-idiots-92793" target="_blank">Dunning-Kruger effect</a>. That’s where people of low ability — let’s say, those who fail to answer logic puzzles correctly — tend to unduly overestimate their abilities.</p><p></p><p>Here are the classic findings from the original paper on the effect in graph form. The worst performers — those in the bottom and second quartile — grossly overestimated their ability (also note how the best performers underestimated it).</p><p></p><p>The explanation for the effect is that when we’re not good at a task, we don’t know enough to accurately assess our ability. So inexperience casts the illusion of expertise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 835, member: 1"] [URL='https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/1/31/18200497/dunning-kruger-effect-explained-trump'][B]An expert on human blind spots gives advice on how to think - Vox[/B][/URL] [I]How to fight the Dunning-Kruger effect, explained by psychologist David Dunning.[/I] David Dunning, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, has devoted much of his career to studying the flaws in human thinking. It has kept him busy. You might recognize Dunning’s name as half of a psychological phenomenon that feels highly relevant to the current political zeitgeist: the [URL='https://psmag.com/social-justice/confident-idiots-92793']Dunning-Kruger effect[/URL]. That’s where people of low ability — let’s say, those who fail to answer logic puzzles correctly — tend to unduly overestimate their abilities. Here are the classic findings from the original paper on the effect in graph form. The worst performers — those in the bottom and second quartile — grossly overestimated their ability (also note how the best performers underestimated it). The explanation for the effect is that when we’re not good at a task, we don’t know enough to accurately assess our ability. So inexperience casts the illusion of expertise. [/QUOTE]
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