'Only incompetent people overestimate themselves' is wrong, even the average person overestimates itself
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The dunning-Kruger effect that 'the foolish person appreciates himself' has been attracting attention in recent years, but in fact the tendency to overestimate the self is not only 'the foolish person' but also 'other than the person with high knowledge' And found out in Neurologists point out that the perception that 'I am not foolish and is not overestimated' is itself part of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Misunderstanding Dunning-Kruger | NeuroLogica Blog
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/misunderstanding-dunning-kruger/
The Dunning-Kruger effect is generally used in a context such as ' knowledge of ignorance ', that is, 'a high ability person underestimates oneself, but a low ability person appreciates oneself'.
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The Dunning-Kruger effect has been a hot topic in recent years, and the Washington Post mentioned the Dunning-Kruger effect in an article on the White House and politicians in January 2019.
This sudden popular psychological phenomenon.-The Washington Post What's behind the confidence of the incompetent?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2019/01/07/whats-behind-confidence-incompetent-this-suddenly-popular-psychological-phenomenon/
However, Steven Novella, a neurologist, points out that 'the Dunning-Kruger effect does not only occur to incompetent persons, but can occur to any person,' and 'only incompetent persons are self. It is misunderstood to interpret “over-estimate” as limited.
The Dunning-Kruger effect was defined in 2012 by two researchers, David Dunning and Justin Kruger.
Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
(PDF file) https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e320/9ca64cbed9a441e55568797cbd3683cf7f8c.pdf
The following graph is shown in this paper. The blue graph is 'recognition of one's ability', the red graph is 'the score of the test that you recognize', and the green graph is the 'score of the actual test'. The vertical axis is the subject's score, and the horizontal axis is the height of the subject's ability. The person with the Bottom Quartile with the lowest test score overestimates the self and the person with the Top Quartile with the highest test score. People have been shown to underestimate the contrary. On the other hand, it has also been shown that people other than 'Top Quartile' tend to overestimate their abilities.
If the meaning of the Dunning-Kruger effect is interpreted as 'the foolish person overestimates himself' in a limited way, one will miss the opportunity for self-development and critical thinking. And ironically, this is also part of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
In recent years, research has also been shown that, even with vaccination, 'anti-vaccinated people tend to think that they know more than their physicians when their knowledge level is extremely low.' Such research on the Dunning-Kruger effect is still in progress as of 2019, and 'self-evaluation ability' is also considered to be the key to the Dunning-Kruger effect.
In other words, if you don't have enough knowledge in a certain field, you won't even be able to assess what your knowledge is. After gaining the first knowledge, for a while, you will be more confident than “when you have no knowledge at all”. However, if you go beyond a certain line, you will see 'how much knowledge you do not know' and understand how much knowledge a real expert has. If you are aware of this, you should be able to evaluate your own and non-specialized areas.
by Lucrezia Carnelos
The Dunning-Kruger effect is also influenced by the individual's personality such as narcissism. It is thought that the Danning-Kruger effect is enhanced by the combination of 'no knowledge,' 'over-estimating oneself,' and 'not receiving criticism.'
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