Isn’t it more that people who are given a test will tend to think that the test was easy when they score well (when they actually scored well because they’re an expert) and people will think a test is hard when they aren’t familiar with the subject (nobody could’ve answered these question!) .
So it’s more that experts and non-experts both assume their knowledge level is more average than it actually is. Not as fun as “dummies think they’re smart and smarties think they’re dumb.” We all just tend to think we’re average and most people are at a similar level of expertise to ourselves.
I think the “dumbies” and “smarties” part comes to play when people decide or not to open their big fat mouths and share their “great knowledge” in a domain they have barelly learned about, especially when they’re dismissing expert opinions with their “great knowledge”.
So whilst being in that very special point of the Dunning-Krugger Effect isn’t really a metric of smarts (we’re all there in at least a few domains), the likelihood of actually dismissing the opinion of domain experts when one’s knowledge in that expert domain is at that point of the curve, is probably positvelly correlate with dumbness.
Isn’t it more that people who are given a test will tend to think that the test was easy when they score well (when they actually scored well because they’re an expert) and people will think a test is hard when they aren’t familiar with the subject (nobody could’ve answered these question!) .
So it’s more that experts and non-experts both assume their knowledge level is more average than it actually is. Not as fun as “dummies think they’re smart and smarties think they’re dumb.” We all just tend to think we’re average and most people are at a similar level of expertise to ourselves.
I think the “dumbies” and “smarties” part comes to play when people decide or not to open their big fat mouths and share their “great knowledge” in a domain they have barelly learned about, especially when they’re dismissing expert opinions with their “great knowledge”.
So whilst being in that very special point of the Dunning-Krugger Effect isn’t really a metric of smarts (we’re all there in at least a few domains), the likelihood of actually dismissing the opinion of domain experts when one’s knowledge in that expert domain is at that point of the curve, is probably positvelly correlate with dumbness.
Are you dismissing my interpretation of the Dunning-Krugger effect based on specific expertise on the subject?