What is the Dunning-Kruger Effect? 

Being educated means being humbled with the knowledge of what you don’t know.

“Forgive them lord, for they know not what they do.”

I've never heard of any of this before. It's interesting that experts would overestimate the abilities of others, and this would make them underestimate their own performance...

This was very interesting. I had not hear of this effect before. I was surprised to hear that experts underestimate themselves.

Poor Ol’ Dunning Kruger. But he sure could whistle!! Lol

socrates had this down a few thousand years ago, with his '' I know nothing'' stance, despite the Delphic Oracle announcing him to be the most wise of people, and his constant questioning of the idiotic folk he met for their reason d'etre.

When in doubt underestimate your ability. Then when you do well it's a pleasant surprise.

I find the concept of illusory superiority fascinating and it was well explained in this video.

My dad called this "...promoted beyond their level of expertise...". He always tried to soften the blow...

It seems like the Dunning Kruger effect can be avoided by having better self-awareness. I have underestimated my abilities at times until others pointed it out and gave me a different perspective. It can also have a lot to do with what the person has in their mind that represents the "correct" way of completing a task. People often use external barometers when measuring their own success.

You know when you suffer from it when you aren't self critical.

This explains a lot.

Also affects musicians.

What about the people that are never willing to investigate the possibility they are incorrect or are incompetent at a (or multiple) tasks?

He didn't mention the objectivity or otherwise of the evaluation of performance. With some tasks you can't fool yourself because the goodness or badness of outcome is plain and undeniable. You can't think your conversational Russian is brilliant if native speakers are uncomprehending or just laugh

While I have heard of this effect, I knew little about it so I found this video to be very informative and helpful in filling in the gaps of my understanding of the effect.

I wonder if I have this effect, can this apply to job interviews? I ask because there have been multiple job interviews that I've been on. A handful of them I thought went really well but I never got hired. Never. Could I have been incompetent but thought that I wasn't and hence I wasn't hired? The job I ended up getting was strictly because I was willing to fill a void in their schedule. It could have been anyone that they hired, but I was willing to do the shift that they needed so that's how I got the job. But prior to that the jobs I really wanted that I was passionate about and thought I would be good at and thought the interviews went well, I was not only not hired but not even replied to when following up. So can this apply to job interviews?

Although I didn't complete highschool I'm something of an expert on the Dumming-Krueger Effect

Sometimes the thought of this effect and people overestimating themselves scares me a little. Not only am I somebody who fears negative judgment regarding my overall reasoning without the person knowing what I think, but my thoughts actually do mean quite a lot to me. Sometimes I wonder if caring this much about my own thoughts or personal reasons makes me look a bit foolish, just because I see the importance of SOME of them. Anyways, you're a very informative person! I've been looking into psychological phenomenons lately, because the topic itself is interesting ^_^

Very interesting! When I asked myself if I am an expert at anything, I answered with no and then your explanation gave me some great insight. I love this because it helps us to be more realistic when judging ourselves. I came to the conclusion that I am an expert with managing my own emotions and reactions (thanks to cognitive behavioral therapy for SAD), very good with using and teaching colored pencils and block printing, and rotten with physical stuff... and absolutely deplorable at housework.

Does this effect Olympian break dancers? You made two videos on very bad break dancing and never brought this up.

ME: "How would you rate your understanding of the Dunning-Kruger effect?" MAN AT PARTY: "Oh, I know ALL about that!" ME: "Yes. I'll bet you do."

I had never heard of this effect before and thought that the video was a good explanation of the phenomenon.

Hey from 2023 👋

My experience in engineering has been that at junior and mid levels of experience you are given routine problems that are easy to solve. You then believe you are bad ass. Once you become a subject matter expert you are given all the rare and difficult problems that you can solve about half the time. That’s when you feel like you don’t know sheet.

I simply work with my credentials some people have trouble averaging scores but it's all in the system.

This was very interesting and something I was not aware of.

Used to assume everyone did math at my level. Then the funny riddle a math instructor told about the border collie student, she they had to find extra - more complex things to do to stave off boredom..boredom...

This is an interesting concept that I was not aware of and I learned alot from this video.

Functional stupidity will serve you well in just about any trade.

It surely seems to me as if humility, or the lack thereof, has much to do with this DKE effect.

I enjoyed watching this video because I had never heard of Dunning-Kruger effect, and the idea how it applies to people rating their competence or incompetence

Keep the black background! 👍🏻

Also known as the bullshit effect

I had no idea this was a phenomenon not tied to narcissicm! Very informative

Like politics lmbo

The Don't Look Up movie is a definitive and hilarious encapsulation of The DK Effect today. 🤣

What if you're just shit at something, and you know it? How does the D-K effect fit into that?

I have experienced each portion of this bell curve being incompetent and overestimating, being competent and underestimating, and even being incompetent and estimating correctly. My estimation is based on my awareness of skills deriving from training, education, and experience of said skill.

Your a genuine geniuse.. How did you get to this level?

So if you ask them if they are good at debating they will say yes when they aren’t? Omg. This im gonna need to talk to someone about. Omg

It really sounds like narcissistic personality disorder.