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A comment on Dunning-Kruger and other memes (2015). Parent comment

Re:Dunning-Kruger and other memes (2015) by ikeboy on Monday June 27, 2016 @08:00PM (#11990492)
Re strawman:

I saw someone making a very similar point to the one this post critiques, which reminded me of this post and prompted me to post it. It's definitely out there as something people believe.

See e.g. this comic http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2475

Edit: or this one http://orig04.deviantart.net/6527/f/2012/283/9/7/dunning_kru...

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Re:Dunning-Kruger and other memes (2015) by mannykannot on Monday June 27, 2016 @09:42PM (#11990917)
The SMBC comic does not actually claim to illustrate the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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Re:Dunning-Kruger and other memes (2015) by ikeboy on Monday June 27, 2016 @09:46PM (#11990928)
No, but it makes the same claim that the post here says is popular and wrong.
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Re:Dunning-Kruger and other memes (2015) by dllthomas on Monday June 27, 2016 @10:20PM (#11991061)
"Willingness to opine" is not identical to "self assessment of capability".

I am also not sure any SMBC comic can be reasonably considered to be making a claim of anything...

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