Does this thread prove or disprove the theory?
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You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you.Voight-Kampff tests have always analyzed people correctly.
Of course it is. You are trying to discredit the data display, but clearly you misunderstand what is being displayed. The whole purpose of the 45-deg line is to show what unbiased results would look like. The data don't look like that, therefore they are biased. The issue revolves around why are they biased?That is not the issue here
How confident are you about your presumption?A: I find it enormously delightful that a bunch of people on the internet who (presumably) have done no research whatsoever as trained and experienced social psychologists are working together to determine the validity of a study in social psychology about people who don't know what they're talking about.
B: I remember hearing an interview with David Dunning some time ago where the interviewer asked, "How confident are you in the results you produced?"
He answered, "Well... I might be completely wrong, but there's no way for me to know it."
I'm gonna go with about a 9 on a scale of 1-10.How confident are you about your presumption?
It’s a bit funny but that seems a very logical reply to me
Thanks for that, @Rilelen - another interesting viewpoint to take in.As a PhD and professor of social psychology….I think I can safely say that “Dunning-Kruger has been debunked” is a vast oversimplification.
What the D-K effect is and why it “exists” has been hotly debated basically since the day Dave Dunning published the original paper. (I’m not going to touch on all the inaccurate takes in popular media that don’t accurately reflect the effect or theorized mechanisms). Nothing new here, another round of debate. Which is great - a healthy science is an evolving science.
Very short gist: The D-K effect replicates robustly. I can and do replicate it routinely in my own classroom, using exam scores, ability to shoot paper balls into baskets etc.
People’s judgments of their ability correlate poorly with actual ability and due to regression-to-the-mean bad performers underestimate how bad they really are. Why exactly this pattern is found can and has been debated. But the most important claim (theoretically) is that the error in self-knowledge is larger among non-experts than experts. That is, low skill error > high skill error. It’s not that people don’t know their own ability. It’s that they know their ability *with error* and error is greater among the unskilled.
That’s it. That’s the Dunning-Kruger effect.
This critique does not address that. The random numbers used in the linked “debunking” blog post do not duplicate that effect. For a longer rebuttal, see:
Yes, The Dunning-Kruger Effect Really Is Real | Skeptical Inquirer
Ignorant of your own ignorance. Frequently applied in a political context, the Dunning-Kruger (DK) effect has rapidly become a famous psychological concept. ...skepticalinquirer.org