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DevilKisses
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16 Feb 2016, 9:27 pm

You know the Dunning-Kruger effect? According to the Dunning-Kruger effect incompetent people think they're competent and competent people think they're incompetent. That gives me a lot of anxiety about my special interests. Some of them have lasted for a long time, so I feel competent at them. I'm scared that feeling competent at them means I'm secretly incompetent.


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16 Feb 2016, 9:31 pm

DevilKisses wrote:
You know the Dunning-Kruger effect? According to the Dunning-Kruger effect incompetent people think they're competent and competent people think they're incompetent. That gives me a lot of anxiety about my special interests. Some of them have lasted for a long time, so I feel competent at them. I'm scared that feeling competent at them means I'm secretly incompetent.


But if you're afraid you may be secretly incompetent, then you don't think you're competent, which means you are. :mrgreen:


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16 Feb 2016, 9:40 pm

Darmok wrote:
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You know the Dunning-Kruger effect? According to the Dunning-Kruger effect incompetent people think they're competent and competent people think they're incompetent. That gives me a lot of anxiety about my special interests. Some of them have lasted for a long time, so I feel competent at them. I'm scared that feeling competent at them means I'm secretly incompetent.


But if you're afraid you may be secretly incompetent, then you don't think you're competent, which means you are. :mrgreen:

I only thought about being incompetent when I read about the Dunning Kruger effect.


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16 Feb 2016, 9:45 pm

Sounds like there's potential here for creating false self-fulfilling prophecies.

If people believe they are competent at something, they're usually competent at that something, I have found.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is representative of black-and-white thinking.

Yes, you have some incompetent people who think they're competent, and vice versa.

But I don't find this to be prevalent.



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16 Feb 2016, 10:29 pm

DevilKisses wrote:
Darmok wrote:
DevilKisses wrote:
You know the Dunning-Kruger effect? According to the Dunning-Kruger effect incompetent people think they're competent and competent people think they're incompetent. That gives me a lot of anxiety about my special interests. Some of them have lasted for a long time, so I feel competent at them. I'm scared that feeling competent at them means I'm secretly incompetent.


But if you're afraid you may be secretly incompetent, then you don't think you're competent, which means you are. :mrgreen:

I only thought about being incompetent when I read about the Dunning Kruger effect.


If you had read about it and still thought you were competent, that would mean you are incompetent. But you read about it and that made you think you were incompetent, which means you are competent. See? :mrgreen:


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17 Feb 2016, 1:50 am

DevilKisses wrote:
You know the Dunning-Kruger effect? According to the Dunning-Kruger effect incompetent people think they're competent and competent people think they're incompetent. That gives me a lot of anxiety about my special interests. Some of them have lasted for a long time, so I feel competent at them. I'm scared that feeling competent at them means I'm secretly incompetent.

Having knowledge about the Dunning-Kruger effect (and it's twin, the Impostor Syndrome) effectively cancels out the Dunning-Kruger effect. And since you made a post about the effect, then you are likely not suffering from it, because you *know* that you may be at risk of overstating your level of competence.

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