Comment by David Dunning (if he is actually him) on the blog post - "The blog author is correct in describing what the original effect is poor performers are overly confident relative to their actual performance. They are not more confident than high performers"
It seems that really smart/intelligent people actually have a much higher estimation of their ability then the less intelligent people (just that the discrepancy between their actual ability and the estimated ability are smaller than less smart people). So opp to what jgg mentioned, those who learn of this study should be inflating their estimation of their own intelligence to put themselves up there with the smartest quartile.
Those who run around saying they are dumb are actually.... dumb =)
So the net of all this is that smart people think they're smart and dumb people think they're dumb. But smart people underestimate their smartness and dumb people underestimate their dumbness. Academia at it's finest. I feel dumb.
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Comment by David Dunning (if he is actually him) on the blog post - "The blog author is correct in describing what the original effect is poor performers are overly confident relative to their actual performance. They are not more confident than high performers"
It seems that really smart/intelligent people actually have a much higher estimation of their ability then the less intelligent people (just that the discrepancy between their actual ability and the estimated ability are smaller than less smart people). So opp to what jgg mentioned, those who learn of this study should be inflating their estimation of their own intelligence to put themselves up there with the smartest quartile.
Those who run around saying they are dumb are actually.... dumb =)
So the net of all this is that smart people think they're smart and dumb people think they're dumb. But smart people underestimate their smartness and dumb people underestimate their dumbness. Academia at it's finest. I feel dumb.