Dunning-Kruger Effect: The Art of Knowing Nothing… Yet Claiming Everything When a person has very little knowledge or skill in a subject, they overestimate their ability a great deal. That is, they think they are very intelligent or skilled, whereas in reality they know even less than average.
In contrast, people who are actually very skilled often slightly underestimate their ability because they know how deep the subject is.
How does it work?
People with little knowledge:
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After acquiring a little knowledge, they start thinking “I know everything.”
They are unable to recognize their own mistakes.
They also underestimate the abilities of others.
People with greater knowledge:
They understand the complexity of the subject, so they rate themselves as average or slightly lower. They maintain the attitude of “I can still learn a great deal.”
Examples from everyday life:
A person watches 2-3 videos on the internet and becomes an “expert” on some disease and starts calling doctors wrong. Someone learns a little coding and starts considering themselves a software engineer.
Someone reads a little politics or economics and starts explaining the entire system of the country.
Its discovery:
This effect was described by psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger in their research in 1999. That is why it is called the Dunning-Kruger Effect.
In short:
“An ignorant person is unable to recognize their own ignorance, so they consider themselves very knowledgeable.”
The most direct example of the Dunning-Kruger Effect is seen in public discourse when unscientific statements like making tea from sewer gas are made, or ridiculous arguments are fabricated such as fighter jets hiding behind dense clouds from radar! From platforms themselves… hee… hee… khhee… khhee peals of laughter, and in front of foreigners, attempts are made to prove oneself knowledgeable by saying meaningless things like ‘sapna-sapna’! The height of arrogance over this ignorance is that properly educated experts and scholars are called incompetent and ridiculed, and in front of the public, by making unscientific statements in arrogance, the drum of one’s own limited education is also beaten! The disease of glorifying one’s own ignorance as a special achievement is called the Dunning-Kruger Effect (Dunning–Kruger Effect), of which Indian politics is a victim.
