Why the Least Skilled Think They’re the Best

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[MrApw]

If I know I'm incompetent, does it make me competent at recognizing incompetence?

[Nils.Minimalist]

"The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts and the stupid ones are full of confidence." (Charles Bukowski)

[anshdeshwal]

ignorance is bliss and every deep thinker knows that in intelligent people is the rarest thing i know" - hemingway

[eugenehayden]

If most of us are incompetent, how does seeking feedback from other incompetent people make the situation better?

[RinKin]

But honestly - we all know those scientists that are good in their topic and based on that start to think they can give others advices in totally different topics - other sciences, politics, art, etc.
Usually for any professional in that topic it sounds like - "step away, let me land the plane, I'm famous historian".

[Himadri.S.Debnath]

Whats ironic is i am in a dunning kruger effect on the understanding of dunning kruger effect.
Now that I know it, am I still in it?

[carrickrichards]

The Dunning-Kruger effect is widely understood. In industries where diploma or undergraduate assistants are being introduced in work associated with post graduate professionals, it is an issue. If HR considers addressing it to be bullying, then you get Akerlof's 'Market for Lemons' (Gresham's law): When given equivalence, the bad pushes out the good (Nobel Prize 2001)

[TheLaualamp]

My father always said that the world of knowledge is like an ocean and you're a small raft, at first the raft has a small circumference and a small contact area with the sea of information that you don't know. The more you learn the bigger your raft gets but also its contact area with the unknown.

[Kilgorebass]

YouTube no longer reveals negative feedback count. What's that about?

[TROOPERfarcry]

This is like the third or fourth video I've watched on the Dunning Krueger Effect. Supposedly the notion has been debunked, but in reality, I think it just needs to be refined. What's interesting is that the phenomenon shows up in naming convention of high-school students, where the first year are Freshmen, then Sophomore, then Junior and Senior. That second one, "Sophomore", translates literally into "wise fool", and supposedly encapsulates the idea that a person has achieved the peak of "mount stupid" early on. Knowledgeable enough to engage in a higher debate, too stupid to win it.

[secondsrule]

Isn’t this obvious? It like saying “he/she’s too stupid to know they are stupid”. On the other end wise people know when they don’t know.

[highronimusadamantium]

I always enjoy your videos, but I’ve got a slight problem with this one, and it’s probably not what you think: I don’t smoke, so I don’t need a product to get me off tobacco or even vaping, but I want one of those Fums!

[teechawoon]

At 3:06
It is possible for the majority of people to be above average. (But it's impossible for majority to be above median.)

[YOSH-KE]

Criticizing imagined failure is as foolish as continuously failing. If anything in a critic's mind could come to fruition, surely their own reality would be better than it is.

[moritzmoritz]

MacArthur Wheeler just had a psychosis and had a non-evidence-based assumption, what has nothing to do with competence or whatsoever.

[GoogleIsTooInvasive]

Before I watched this video, I thought that I understood the Dunning Kruger effect. Now I actually do. 😉. Thanks 🙏

[BrianEhrler]

FUM the perfect product placement for the dense and incompetent ...

[KhethokuhleLanga-FX]

Your research is so over the Top always ❤

[stephenbrickwood]

Exactly.
Loud ignorant people appear confident.
Also, experts outside their area of expertise often are over confident.

Like a medical doctor promoting nuclear electricity to stop worldwide CO2 emissions.