Dunning-Kruger and other memes (2015)

"The less someone knows about a subject, the more they think they know." I think that's an exaggeration and understood by most people to be one. What is, however, absolutely clear from the original study is that incompetent people have a highly inflated assessment on their own abilities: in all four experiments (!), the people with actual 10% abilities rated themselves at 50-70%. This is perfectly in line with eg. Urban Dictionary's definition[1]: "A phenomenon where people with little knowledge…

I don't understand what point he is trying to make about the Dunning-Kruger effect. The only pop-sci version of the study that I've heard is that the bottom percentile tends to overestimate their abilities while the top percentile tends to underestimate their abilities. The data shown certainly seems to support this interpretation? edit: I read the article linked in another comment below [1] and now I think I understand what claim the original article was referring to. It seems a…

Opinion: a log like decrease in happiness vs income is basically consistent with "more money doesn't make you happier". Sketching a graph that is completely flat is misleading however. The only question is, at what point on the log scale is the increase small enough to disregard (compared to other life factors). Another one from the article: I'm arguing without empirical evidence of the superiority of good type systems (Note: I try to stay away from claims about what those…

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11990183