Week 11 Day 1 - Dunning Kruger Effect

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Today we talked about the Dunning Kruger effect, which is a psychological phenomenon in which people overestimate their knowledge or competency. 95% of professors think they are an above-average professor, for example - which might not even be a bad thing, honestly. People wanting to be competent is probably good for the field.


But it's a problem when dealing with keyboard warriors with Google PhDs who think they're experts on a subject because they Googled it this one time.







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