THE DUNNING KRUGER EFFECT - people are to stupid to know they are stupid
Have you ever sat and listened to a person drone on about a subject they know nothing about? This week’s Fallacy is so easy, it’s stupid. It’s also the one that is the hardest to accept in ourselves. It’s called THE DUNNING KRUGER EFFECT. It’s based on research done at Cornell University that showed that the less competent someone is on a subject, the worse they are at assessing their level of in competence in that subject. The reverse is also true. The more competent a person is, in a subject, the less competent they tend to judge themselves to be. Author, Charles Bukowski puts it best, “ The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” With that in mind, I would like to state, here and now, for the record, that I never know what I am talking about (wait a second, is that a humblebrag?)