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josephgtoday at 3:15 AM2 repliesview on HN

No it doesn't. The people with the lowest self perception also have the lowest actual skill. Look at the chart:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect#...


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ffsm8today at 6:09 AM

I guess you linking to it was a self fulfilling prophecy

If you read your own reference (not the picture, but where you took it from on Wikipedia) really really carefully, you might be able to tell why it so perfectly applies to you

The person with little knowledge overestimates they're capability, and the person which actually knows how complicated [the thing] is , usually isn't as confident they mastered it.

Your take on that makes absolutely no sense

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gnabgibtoday at 3:24 AM

That isn't what that shows, and the article you linked to even warns:

> In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is sometimes misunderstood as claiming that people with low intelligence are generally overconfident, instead of denoting specific overconfidence of people unskilled at particular areas.

Dunning-Kruger has also been discredited with suggestion they may have been over confident themselves:

The Dunning-Kruger Effect Is Probably Not Real (2020) https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/critical-thinking/dunning-...

Debunking the Dunning‑Kruger effect – the least skilled people know how much they don’t know, but everyone thinks they are better than average (2023) https://theconversation.com/debunking-the-dunning-kruger-eff... the Dunning‑Kruger effect – the least skilled people know how much they don’t know, but everyone thinks they are better than average

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