[HN Gopher] I can't let go of "The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Auto...
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I can't let go of "The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation"
Author : keshet
Score : 7 points
Date : 2022-04-21 20:56 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| keshet wrote:
| Somebody is still wrong on the internet
| goosedragons wrote:
| "The second option conforms with the Research Methods 101 rule-
| of-thumb "always assume independence." Until proven otherwise, we
| should assume people have no ability to self-assess their
| performance"
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| It's not that at all. The assumption should be that everyone is
| equally good (or bad) at assessing their performance. Not that
| they have no ability but that the means between groups is the
| same vs. not the same. That the ability to assess themselves is
| independent of performance.
| galaxyLogic wrote:
| I think Dunning Krueger makes intuitive sense. When you become
| skilled in your field you learn from other people in your field,
| and your assessment of yourself is based on your relation to the
| skills of those other people. But if you know very little about
| something, you have no reference point to evaluate yourself
| against.
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| When you learn something you also learn what are some of the
| mistakes you can make. You evaluate your performance then against
| the mistakes you didn't make. Consider a piano player, or figure-
| skater. You have to know about what figures are difficult to
| perform to evaluate a performance, and you don't know what the
| difficult ones are until you have studied and tried to perform
| them.
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