2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Have you ever asked yourself a question like me - why many people, objectively less intellectually developed, achieve greater success and benefits than smarter people?
I have my own answers to similar questions, but there is also a more scientific interpretation of this cognitive distortion.
In 1999, scientists David Dunning and Justin Kruger hypothesized the existence of this phenomenon. Their assumption was based on Darwin's popular phrase that ignorance breeds confidence more often than knowledge.
A similar thought was expressed earlier by Bertrand Russell, who said that today stupid people radiate confidence, and those who understand a lot are always full of doubts.
The full formulation of the hypothesis is as follows:
"People with a low skill level make erroneous conclusions and make bad decisions, but they are not able to realize their mistakes due to their low skill level."
That is, incompetent people always tend to overestimate their knowledge, skills and abilities, they do not understand their mistakes and they are always convinced that they are right, so they are confident in themselves and their superiority.
They consider themselves professionals because they cannot compare themselves with others and adequately assess the knowledge of other people.
They are also incapable of realizing that they are incompetent.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a psychological paradox that we often encounter in life: less competent people value themselves unreasonably high and act, while more qualified people always doubt themselves and their abilities.
They think over all their actions and the possible result, to what these actions can lead, and often stop themselves because of uncertainty.
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