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A guest post by Martin Hanson: In the 1990s two American social psychologists, David Dunning and Justin Kruger, began research to find out whether there was any relationship between people’s abilities and how accurately they judge their own abilities. They used undergraduate students as their subjects, and their research was published in 1999 with the
Organizing my thoughts regarding an argument about the Dunning-Kruger study and statistics in general
Dunning-Kruger effect, in psychology, a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general. According to the researchers for whom it is named, psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the effect is explained by the fact that the metacognitive ability to recognize deficiencies in one’s own knowledge or competence requires that one possess at least a minimum level of the ...
There could be a good reason for this. Take a look at the node on Multiple intelligences. Let's assume for a moment that this is correct, and all people...