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(13,779 posts)In the field of psychology, the DunningKruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein people of low ability suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority derives from the metacognitive inability of low-ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude.
Without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.[1]
As described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the cognitive bias of illusory superiority results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, "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."[1] Hence, the corollary to the DunningKruger effect indicates that persons of high ability tend to underestimate their relative competence and erroneously presume that tasks that are easy for them to perform are also easy for other people to perform.[1]
rock
(13,218 posts)We may assume in this particular case they are as well, and cannot competently judge their own ability. Fairly obvious.
cpamomfromtexas
(1,247 posts)My test for intelligience in people:
Are they AWARE of what they don't know?
packman
(16,296 posts)but now I am awed by how stupid and shallow I was all those years.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)after about 3 or 4 months I resigned my management position and went back to being an ordinary engineer, where I was both happy and competent.
I really hated trying to do a job that I realized I was not competent to do. It made every day a miserable hell. In later years, each of the several times I was offered a promotion to management, I turned it down with the explanation that I was born to be a grease monkey and I wouldn't be happy or productive in any other role.
Volaris
(10,274 posts)It was a mistake for you to accept promotion, Admiral...commanding a starship is your first, Best Destiny; everything else is a WASTE of material.?
It's important to know what we're cognitively good at, and then find a career that suits that ability, I think.
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)loafing, but I could never find anyone willing to pay me to do that.