this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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TranscriptA tweet saying "100k a year to take someone's order at Taco Bell . Totally makes sense.". It has a reply saying "Where the hell did you get that number? If someone's working enough hours to make that on $15 an hour, they deserve it. $15 an hour, a person working 40 a week makes $31,200 a year." the reply has 2 likes.

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[โ€“] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

"Imagine how dumb the average person is. Now considers half the people are dumber than that."

is a line I never hear from people who think they're in the bottom half.

[โ€“] RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 1 points 50 minutes ago

The Dunning-Kruger effect suggests that people with limited knowledge or skills in a specific area tend to overestimate their abilities and underestimate the abilities of others. This cognitive bias is often linked to a lack of metacognitive skills, which are necessary to recognize one's own incompetence. Essentially, if someone doesn't know something, they may also not realize they don't know it.