Any Psychologists here??

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks that are easy for them are also easy for others.
David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University have postulated that the effect is the result of internal illusion in the unskilled, and external misperception in the skilled: "The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."

Dunning-Kruger syndrome has been understood largely as a workplace phenomenon, but let me posit that it is a powerful factor in message board posters:


Incompetent, low-value people constantly imagine themselves to be smarter than they are, and smarter than other people generally, and believe that other people require their (incompetent) guidance in a nearly limitless number of lifestyle choices.


In fact, the people who assert that they are smarter than others, and thus must lend their competency and intellect to others, are in fact among the stupidest, most incompetent, and least useful people in existence.

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Blanch, we all have past accomplishments we can point to in order to try to justify our intelligence. I could point to my ACT score. But that just seems silly, to point back to an accomplishment 20 years ago. It doesn't do shit for me, or my family. It didn't do shit for me in college or in the workplace. It doesn't mean a goddamned thing.

Blanch32 wrote:I'm the guy with the 3.98 with honors. Wouldn't this pretty much apply to the msg board population that's below my intellect, yet attacks me? For isnt that the very definition?

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:He did, but he left. Because he hates Nigel.

LooseGoose wrote:If so, am I correct in assuming this is the mental problem Blanch deals with?

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, erroneously assuming that tasks that are easy for them are also easy for others.
David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University have postulated that the effect is the result of internal illusion in the unskilled, and external misperception in the skilled: "The miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."

Dunning-Kruger syndrome has been understood largely as a workplace phenomenon, but let me posit that it is a powerful factor in message board posters:


Incompetent, low-value people constantly imagine themselves to be smarter than they are, and smarter than other people generally, and believe that other people require their (incompetent) guidance in a nearly limitless number of lifestyle choices.


In fact, the people who assert that they are smarter than others, and thus must lend their competency and intellect to others, are in fact among the stupidest, most incompetent, and least useful people in existence.

Dunning–Kruger effect

Cym Jim wrote:

LooseGoose wrote:If so, am I correct in assuming this is the mental problem Blanch deals with?








Dunning–Kruger effect

I hope you're second quote isn't from Wikipedia! We deal with Dunning-Kruger a lot in educational measurement, especially in measures of instructional effectiveness. I've always seen it as part of the general American way of being - where everyone is an above average driver, is better than average looking (unless you attend an RCMB tailgate), where all children are above average. etc. etc. Sadly the only things people will happily admit to not being very good at are important things like math and science.

Rocinante wrote:Quit being a Limey douche.

Rocinante wrote:

Blanch32 wrote:I'm the guy with the 3.98 with honors. Wouldn't this pretty much apply to the msg board population that's below my intellect, yet attacks me? For isnt that the very definition?

Think of this in a high pitched upper class English accent and it's hilarious.

Blanch32 wrote:I'm the guy with the 3.98 with honors. Wouldn't this pretty much apply to the msg board population that's below my intellect, yet attacks me? For isnt that the very definition?

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:He did, but he left. Because he hates Nigel.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:He did, but he left. Because he hates Nigel.

It seems Nigel kinda left, too. I don't think they enjoyed us telling both of them to end the war.

InTenSity wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:

It seems Nigel kinda left, too. I don't think they enjoyed us telling both of them to end the war.

That's not going to stop Nigel. I think he posted he was somewhere in the Dakota's. Maybe he's on vacation and not posting at all. He hasn't posted on tBB since last Thursday and he hasn't posted here since then either.

Cym Jim wrote:

Rocinante wrote:Quit being a Limey douche.

You're definitely above average.

LooseGoose wrote:

InTenSity wrote:
That's not going to stop Nigel. I think he posted he was somewhere in the Dakota's. Maybe he's on vacation and not posting at all. He hasn't posted on tBB since last Thursday and he hasn't posted here since then either.

BobS too, I think they're one and the same.

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Blanch, we all have past accomplishments we can point to in order to try to justify our intelligence. I could point to my ACT score. But that just seems silly, to point back to an accomplishment 20 years ago. It doesn't do shit for me, or my family. It didn't do shit for me in college or in the workplace. It doesn't mean a goddamned thing.

Dingleberryexplosion wrote:

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:He did, but he left. Because he hates Nigel.

Ha! What a pussy.

Herbie Green wrote:

Blanch32 wrote:I'm the guy with the 3.98 with honors. Wouldn't this pretty much apply to the msg board population that's below my intellect, yet attacks me? For isnt that the very definition?

I think your schtick would have worked so much better if you were a 7 year 2.02 student that fumbled his way into a six figure job, posting incoherent messages from the local bar.

A 3.98 honors graduate that can't form a sentence just doesn't make sense.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:I don't get the blanch hate. He is what he is, and there are definitely worse posters out there.

I would party with blanch, seems like a fun dude.

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:I don't get the blanch hate. He is what he is, and there are definitely worse posters out there.

I would party with blanch, seems like a fun dude.

Rocinante wrote:

Other Teams Pursuing That wrote:I don't get the blanch hate. He is what he is, and there are definitely worse posters out there.

I would party with blanch, seems like a fun dude.

You're drunk again, aren't you?

Blanch32 wrote:

WhiteBoyHatcher wrote:Blanch, we all have past accomplishments we can point to in order to try to justify our intelligence. I could point to my ACT score. But that just seems silly, to point back to an accomplishment 20 years ago. It doesn't do shit for me, or my family. It didn't do shit for me in college or in the workplace. It doesn't mean a goddamned thing.

I can promise it helped land my last job.  That or I'm shockingly good at my career...got 4 calls this week about other opportunities here in Charlotte

steveschneider wrote:

Al Bundy clung to the glory of his high school football days, Blanch is clinging to the glory of his 3.98 gpa days.

GRR Spartan wrote:So you are saying Blanch's GPA is Great Piles of Adderall?

Blanch32 wrote:

GRR Spartan wrote:So you are saying Blanch's GPA is Great Piles of Adderall?

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