this post was submitted on 12 May 2025
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"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.
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.