The Dunning Kruger Effect

The Dunning-Kruger effect (also Mount Stupid or Smug Snake), named after David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University, occurs where people fail to adequately assess their level of competence — or specifically, their incompetence — at a task and thus consider themselves much more competent than everyone else. This lack of awareness is attributed to their lower level of competence robbing them of the ability to critically analyse their performance, leading to a significant overestimation of themselves.

We offer some strategies at the end on how to overcome the dunning kruger effect.

Script: Samantha Chaves
Voice Over: Scott Austin
Animation: Dyzkei

Feedback Editor: Risha Maes
Project Manager: Erin Bogo
Producer: Psych2Go

[hadara]

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts."
~Bertrand Russell

[harbingersev-oh-wohne]

Best described by an old proverb: "A jar with a few pennies, when shaken will be noisy... A jar filled with pennies, when shaken will not sound"

[dkyoungson]

The easiest person to fool has always been ourselves.

[frocco]

The more we know,
the more we know how much we dont know.

[George]

The D-K effect is invisible to the sufferer. It is not a plan or strategy. It is failure of self-evaluation because the sufferer is so low in intelligence that he doesn't know he's uninformed or underinformed on the subject under discussion. He is "Often wrong, but never in doubt." "I'm a good driver." "If I can dream it I can do it."
He has strong opinions on topics he has not been educated in. He gets confused when someone who actually knows explains it.

[ginsan]

So in conclusion: Don't get cocky and just say "I don't know", and learn.

[_shenanigans_]

I'm Happy to say that the comment I left a while ago on this channel about my anxiety has been resolved. My anxiety has gone down significantly I can now properly talk to people. I must assume it had something to do with the exercise I started doing.

[izziam]

I overestimated how knowledgeable I am on the dunning-kruger effect, then I watched your video.

[vallejowendyl.]

Can you make a video about how to deal wit anxiety

[renderz]

The more i like a subject and study it, the more i panic during the exam, so i tend to score worse in subjects i love, and better in subjects i don't put my heart in. Because when you like that subject, you have high expectations of yourself of it, and anything in the exam that makes you skeptical will waver your confidence and render you unable to concentrate from that point on. Thats exactly what happened to me, my best two subjects became my worse two.

[CaptainSoftboy]

This reminded me of rick and Morty. It was that part where rick made a reference and summer and Morty laughed. But it turned out the person rick referenced didn't even exist. So rick says "you really are your father's children" and also "Stop being sheep" or something like that lol

[ContinualImprovement]

Really great video. I've been guilty of pretending I know exactly what someone is talking about when it's actually completely false haha.

[walelarose]

I didn't even know what the Dunning Kruger Effect was before this, thanks!
Also that art style is so beautiful! I nearly died of happiness when I saw it!

[lunarglimpse]

I think I am somewhat under the Dunning-Kruger effect but When something I don't know, I don't lie about knowing it, but instead I make sure I don't meet the person ever again and learn as much as I can about the topic so I can have a decent conversation about it

[TheDefenderPlays]

what happened to the marshmallow people?

[鲤]

'I didn't know what does the title means, but I'll watch it anyway'

[FranDrakeS]

I love this new characters! they look so great.

[EdvinPalmer]

Thank you for this wonderful and concise explanation.

[MicRouSn]

Loving the new style, guys. They are able to express much more emotion than the limited mobility of the little bald round characters. Keep it up!

[lincel]

This is the first time I get an ads with this channel