Okay, I had to look that up - and you're right, nothing else says it like that...
“I blame the Dunning-Kruger Effect. There is no other reasonable explanation.
Okay, I had to look that up - and you’re right, nothing else says it like that...”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.” Sounds similar to the DK effect to me.
I read the other day that the purpose of books is to slap us down when we think we’ve had an original thought.
That notwithstanding, I figured out the second part of the DK effect for myself. Astoundingly (to me) I have had a number of frustrating arguments with people who were absolutely, even bitterly, unwilling to consider the possibility that they were overestimating others. When I proposed that they were mistaken to assume “that tasks that are easy for them are also easy for others” (Wikipedia), most of them seemed to take it as a personal affront. This is a mystery to me, since the premise underlying my argument is that these people are a lot smarter, or more capable in some area(s), than many others.