{"id":7449,"date":"2015-04-03T12:59:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T11:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/?p=7449"},"modified":"2015-04-03T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2015-04-03T11:59:23","slug":"dunning-kruger-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/04\/03\/dunning-kruger-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Dunning\u2013Kruger effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well I had never heard of this before but it seems quite logical to me as I usually making the assumption that if I managed to make the grade to do something then others will have done so too on average.<\/p>\n<p>The basic premise is\u00a0a <a title=\"Cognitive bias\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cognitive_bias\">cognitive bias<\/a> wherein unskilled individuals suffer from <a title=\"Illusory superiority\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Illusory_superiority\">illusory superiority<\/a>, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a <a title=\"Metacognition\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metacognition\">metacognitive<\/a> inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.<sup id=\"cite_ref-Kruger_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#cite_note-Kruger-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>As David Dunning and Justin Kruger of <a title=\"Cornell University\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cornell_University\">Cornell University<\/a> conclude: &#8220;The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-Kruger_1-1\" class=\"reference\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#cite_note-Kruger-1\">[1]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"external free\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well I had never heard of this before but it seems quite logical to me as I usually making the assumption that if I managed to make the grade to do something then others will have done so too on average. The basic premise is\u00a0a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/04\/03\/dunning-kruger-effect\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dunning\u2013Kruger effect<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NRDR-1W9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7392,"url":"https:\/\/glass-cage.com\/dianas_blog\/2015\/04\/02\/democracy-v-psychology-why-people-keep-electing-idiots\/","url_meta":{"origin":7449,"position":0},"title":"Democracy v Psychology: why people keep electing idiots","author":"diana Stone","date":"April 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The 2015 election campaigns are under way, and it\u2019s clear that doing or saying unintelligent things is no barrier to political success. 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