Re:Dunning-Kruger and other memes (2015)
by brownbat on Tuesday June 28, 2016 @05:22AM
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> Author's take on Dunning-Kruger is a strawman.
That wasn't the author's take on DK, that was the author's take on the pop sci version of DK, very different. It is definitely a straw man, one which David Dunning has also publicly criticized, so the author's in good company.
Here's an episode of This American Life where Dunning claims that he created a meme (his word), but that people misuse DK as an epithet targeted against stupid people, missing the fact that this applies to all of us:
If you want to see how most people talk about DK, David Dunning runs a quick search on Twitter. I don't think the median depth of understanding on DK is quite as high as you expect...
That wasn't the author's take on DK, that was the author's take on the pop sci version of DK, very different. It is definitely a straw man, one which David Dunning has also publicly criticized, so the author's in good company.
Here's an episode of This American Life where Dunning claims that he created a meme (his word), but that people misuse DK as an epithet targeted against stupid people, missing the fact that this applies to all of us:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/585/t...
If you want to see how most people talk about DK, David Dunning runs a quick search on Twitter. I don't think the median depth of understanding on DK is quite as high as you expect...