Stav Atir
Most people overestimate their own expertise, and most do not recognize their degree of incompetence. A previous blog post highlighted this metacognition phenomenon known as the Dunning-Kruger effect.
This effect has been demonstrated for people’s overestimates of their skills in grammar, emotional intelligence, logical reasoning, firearm care and safety, debating, and financial acumen.
Emily Rosenzweig
More recently, the effect was demonstrated by Cornell’s Stav Atir and Emily Rosenzweig of Tulane, when they asked volunteers if they were familiar with concepts like centripetal force and photon as well as fictitious terms including plates of parallax, ultra-lipid, and cholarine.
About 90% of participants claimed some knowledge of at least one of the nine fake concepts, and people who thought they were most knowledgeable also said they recognized more of the meaningless terms.
David Dunning
Atir and Rosenzweig concluded that poor performers lack insight about…
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