Reducing the Dunning Kruger Effect

[@DecisionSkills]

Enroll in a FREE 30-minute course on using S.M.A.R.T. goals to achieve more in less time. www.udemy.com/goal-setting/

[@5MinutePsychology]

The Dunning-Kruger effect is my very favourite reason why there are so many KZbinrs! Love it!

[@lucascardoso773]

Thank you so much! Since I decided to increase my knowledge, it appears that my confidence is always getting down. And it's been becoming a problem since I need to show confidence to sell my work. Your video show me a relevant point about this topic. Thank you again.

[@winataw1n]

Great & Clear explanations, got the point.

[@g0d5m15t4k3]

I like the solid advice of not comparing yourself to others, but to your previous self. The world is quite wrapped up in competing against each other though. For example: why aren't you producing as much as someone else? Being ok with yourself, knowing that you are growing each day, unfortunately doesn't stop others from comparing you to others. But! If more people learn to judge against their own past, the less comparison between individuals happen.

[@dywsliws]

Thank you, I draw as a hobby and when I try to learn anatomy my confidence goes down because it's so difficult, but when I compare myself to other people I feel good about my art and it makes me not wanting to learn and practice anatomy and stuff, so it really hinders my improvement .. I realize I really need to stop comparing myself to others so i can improve and balance my ego.. Thank you again!

[@Darkwater1886]

This is soooo cool. I compared myself to other people tons when I was growing up in pretty much everything I did but now that I've gotten a bit older, I've begun telling other people along with myself how important it is to base wether or not you are improving on your OWN output versus someone elses. So cool to find out this was a cool psychological thing I unintentionally did.

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

There's only one person in this world you should compare yourself to and that is the past you and there's nothing wrong with not being the best because there's always somebody better but Improvement can be considered winning as far as I'm concerned if you're not moving backwards or remaining stagnant that is progress in my book so until you're done if you're making progress you should consider that a success

[@MentalschlankAt]

Thanks for pointing out how underestimating your own abilities can create pear pressure. I wasn't aware that underestimation of your own skills can also have a negative effekt on others.

[@jasonmathias5343]

The Dunning Kruger Effect can be easily explained by this psychological tendency: When we are ignorant or bad at something we don't want others to know that so we make it seem like we aren't bad. When we are good and knowledgeable at something, we play ourselves down, because we don't want to come across as being arrogant and we want to appear humble about our skills..... This psychological effect is about human survival, as its a good survival mechanism within a society so thats perhaps why it evolved within us. If you are low skill, then pretending/believing like you are not can get you jobs, positions and status. So you don't produce, but you make people feel you can. If you are high skill, then pretending/believing like you are not makes you come across as humble, more likable, more trusting and less of a threat. So you do produce, but you make people feel you are not a threat to them. Both can lead to holding onto and gaining higher positions in society thus increasing ones survival.

[@stebarg]

I often fall victim to this effect as I expect others to wanting to get better. Almost nobody wants to improve.

[@Brommear]

Too busy on their cell phones, I suppose!

[@Nickporter17]

This effect applies to me and I'm sure this framework will too! Great presentation.

[@Rob337_aka_CancelProof]

Good job on the video and I agree with almost everything you said except the part about high skill individuals under estimating the ability of others. I don't think it has anything to do with under estimating the ability of others but rather under estimating the abilities of oneself. It is my belief based on personal experience that the only limitations that really hold me back are the ones I place on myself. People can be amazing when it comes to success or they can be amazing failures in the case of lack of effort on their part because anything you want if you want it badly enough and don't ever give up you can achieve it. Where did that idea come from....? Myself of course. My father did a very thorough and convincing job of convincing my twin brother and I we were the two stupidest people in any room before he left when we were five (and it didn't matter what room I was in) but because he was my father I believe him and that stuck with me for more than 25 years. Like most people raised by a single mother in government housing on a minimum-wage job working 40 plus hours a week, I attended Public School and the public school in my district based on where I lived was not a very good one and I hated every minute of it and quit as soon as I turn 16 which was for me my third time through the ninth grade. Immediately after turning 18 I acquired eight felonies because I was selling drugs and using almost as much as I sold and after doing my time and the required rehab I was twenty-five years old and didn't know what the hell I was supposed to be doing but figured it should be something different than what I've been doing. The counselor in rehab encouraged me to get my GED and go to college so I got my GED and started looking for something interesting to do in college. Through some loophole requiring a local community college to accept one applicant from each of the adjacent counties I got into nuclear medicine program at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa and immediately realized I was in way over my head to say the least but refused to quit. Having not attended high school of course I really had no business being there taking a spot someone more qualified should have had so I figured it was incumbent on me to put everything I had into it and with the help of some of my classmates and the inspiration of Booker T Washington 2 years later I graduated with a degree in nuclear medicine. In retrospect I should have chosen a different major because I never did work in the field as it turns out they're kind of picky about who they let play with the radioactive material and the State of Florida is never one to let you forget you messed up but I finally figured out I wasn't the dumbest person in the room and I have to credit a lot of that with feeling like everyone else was smarter than me (but being the rebellious type I viewed that as a challenge instead of a reason to give up) and putting the extra effort into trying to catch up with everyone else. At 52 I'm still jumping on a shovel in the hot Florida Sun at 10 to $15 an hour and in my free time spending a lot of time learning anything that interests me and I realize now I can do whatever I want if I'm willing to put in the leg work and I could go get a job in nuclear medicine today in almost any other state but I like Florida and consider it my home, and just about 4 months ago finally paid off my mortgage and considering the state of the rest of the world today have no intention of ever leaving what might be one of the last free states in America. With very few exceptions everyone out there is capable of way more than they realize if they just squash the self-doubt and feed the desire they can do whatever they want they just have to want it bad enough.

[@madethisaccountfor65]

Easy to understand. Thank you for sharing

[@basicdose.9872]

I like dunning . He makes life easy to understand.

[@elliotlambert3817]

much more important than this commonsense outcome of this effect is the learning curve. If an investor in the stock exchange tries to do brain surgery he may get it wrong but I bet he knew it would not go well.

[@marinamori4083]

Thank you, you OPEN my eyes. Very interesting!! Jan 30, 2019

[@tarikdelic5461]

You hadnt to sign with the date dude. Its says it right next to your nickname

[@Failzz8]

@@tarikdelic5461 Not the exact date though, just a very rough timeframe - Feb 22, 2021, 1:03:48 AM

[@deletioninducedin7days919]

​@@tarikdelic5461 It says 2 years ago for me so - March 29, 2021

[@reedr7142]

Unfortunately, for #3, there are people in this country who don't believe in credentialed professionals :/

[@theglitchyspeck]

Can't decide between DK effect and Impostor Syndrome. Leaving the chat. 😣

[@janemerrick2936]

What if you’re low skill and you feel you’re low skill as well?

[@DecisionSkills]

Keep in mind that a key aspect of the research is “peer comparison”. It may be your first time to play chess so you know and feel that you are at a low skill level. But, after the first game how you feel relative to other people that have also only played one game is what the research tested. What was found was people of low skill, relative to peers, overestimate their ability.

[@texastrustedoralsurgeon6830]

Alexandria Dunning-Kruger Cortez.

[@tomasmarcinkevic1915]

Thank you :)

[@blueman912]

Ah yes, my friend is really bad at rainbow six siege but he thinks he’s really good, and I’m really good at the game but I usually think I’m the worst. Thanks, now I understand.

[@thetorontoman]

Dont live off the hype!