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Re:Fraud, so much fraud by ScoobleDoodle on Saturday September 28, 2024 @01:34PM (#41681694)
Dunning Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.

That is to say some of the incompetent are so incompetent they can’t distinguish between their incompetence and an actual expert. This is exhibited very publicly in some contestants of the American Idol genre of shows.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...

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Re:Fraud, so much fraud by brnaftr361 on Saturday September 28, 2024 @02:03PM (#41681906)
D&K ironically misengineered their tests and inadventently misconstrued their data due to floor and ceiling effects. If you ran the gamut of their tests against random noise you get similar results.

https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-...

I posit that anyone who uses DK unironically is actually committing to the DK-paradox, something I'll leave you to define for yourself.

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