Dunning–Kruger effect
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.[1] The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. This leads to the perverse situation in which less competent people rate their own ability higher than more competent people. It also explains why actual competence may weaken self-confidence: because competent individuals falsely assume that others have an equivalent understanding. "Thus, the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[1]
This blog will be an ongoing project part of a greater effort to diagnose which side of the Dunning-Kruger coin I fall on - while I have been assured time and time again that my wildly interesting persona is only dwarfed by my devilish good looks, I must do my best to either confirm or deny these baseless accusations. Herein I will document all that I find amusing and thought provoking on the Internets and my daily life.
