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gnabgibtoday at 3:24 AM2 repliesview on HN

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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flexagoontoday at 11:43 AM

Are you replying to the wrong comment? The person you're responding to seems to make the same point

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Joel_Mckaytoday at 6:38 AM

No idea why we all get negative karma on this thread, as I do respect a cited source opinion even if we disagree. Do have a look around for papers rather than editorialized content in the future, and note account LLM agent output is a violation of YC usage policy. Have a great day =3

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.02151