News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real by echelon on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:18PM (#25547264)
I can't go a week without seeing people mention Dunning-Kruger on Reddit. It's become such a pop-cultural zeitgeist term that it's lost any ties to the original study. It's frequently abused as a derogatory adjective to describe people while claiming the superior argument, often without providing evidence.

I don't know what to do about it, but its use by lay people bothers me. It's ironically Dunning-Kruger.

Re:The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real by seibelj on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:25PM (#25547294)
This is a popular opinion on HN, but I'll state again that reddit is basically unusable. I still check a few subreddits using old.reddit.com but the mobile app they constantly shove down your throat is bloated trash and the redesign is garbage. It's inevitable that something better comes along.
Re:The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real by richk449 on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:47PM (#25547437)
Agreed. And its use in discussions unfortunately adds no value. Imagine that two people are arguing about something. You walk up, interrupt them, and state that one of them is wrong but because the wrong person is stupid, they don't realize they are wrong.

Will your comment change anything? Of course not, both people arguing will just assume that the other one is the stupid person.

Re:The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real by tyu2 on Saturday December 26, 2020 @06:38PM (#25547391)
You can try to explain that the effect doesn't actually apply to any pointing out of the effect in someone's comment, maybe even cite the study.
Re:The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real by Bakary on Saturday December 26, 2020 @11:59PM (#25548981)
I can't help but notice that your comment ironically continues the recursion chain, and that mine now does as well.