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Thread #160293 Message #3801733
Posted By: leeneia
23-Jul-16 - 04:17 PM
Thread Name: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
Subject: RE: BS: Tin foil safety helmet game
"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately."
1. Why can't they make this simple point in simple English?
2. Define "unskilled." Is an affluent, computer-literate Pokemon Go player who steps into traffic while glued to his Smartphone to be considered skilled?
3. Most of us overrate our intelligence, and the fewer dangers we know of, the confident we are. Why do Dunning and Kruger think they deserve to be immortalized by writing this up?