The Glade 4.0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect

I want to remember this for future reference, and I have to shut down my machine right now. Welcome to being my temporary link storage facility, *****.

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What the hell's wrong with your Bookmarks folder?

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The Dude abides.

Internet Explorer/Firefox/Opera is hard...

Oh the irony ...

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Someone forgot to bring his laptop to the conference hall, I take it.

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Buckle your pants or they might fall down.

No, I have my laptop. It's just that this is my work laptop, and I don't, as a rule, store anything non-work-essential on here, even bookmarks. So I tossed it in here immediately, but didn't have the opportunity to really go into why.

Now that you've all asked yourselves "What is so fascinating about the Dunning-Kruger effect that shuyung, being pressed for time, would post the wiki link in Hellfire with basically no explanation?" and clicked on the link and read it, now for the point. This was apparently a set of studies to investigate how people think of their competence (in whatever area). The truly competent tend to underestimate their skill, while the incompetent tend to overestimate their skill. Follow-up studies indicate, interestingly enough, that this applies almost solely to Americans. Europeans are rather unaffected, while Asians display almost a mirror image of the effect.

So now you have a name for something that perhaps some of you have encountered and wondered at.

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When you say "europeans are unaffected" do you mean Europeans accuraely estimate their own level of expertise, or that they are just all over the place with individual Europeans being either accurte or inaccurate in both directions equally?

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Pretty sure we have discussed this topic before on the boards.

I usually send a PM to myself for that type of stuff.

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Beat me to it

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I would if my PM box wasn't constantly full.

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Holy shitsnacks!

I took it to mean, when I read the blurb "Similar studies on European subjects show marked muting of the effect", that the European subjects were not prey, except in a basically trivial manner, to the cognitive bias. In other words, a random European subject of random skill, correctly identifies his competence to at least within a reasonable margin of error, if not better.

Maybe. Many topics seem to get regurgitated.

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