Why Do Stupid People Think They're Smart? The Dunning Kruger Effect (animated)
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2023
- Have you ever wondered why some people overestimate their abilities, even when they lack the necessary knowledge or skills? This video explores the cognitive bias that causes people to believe they are smarter than they actually are.
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Nicely done video. Simple and to the point. Probably falling for it myself, looking back did it myself. As older I get recognize it more and more. Specially since the internet. Sadly, can not fix stupide.
Thank you for the kind words! That is part of the growing process. I still applaud you for being aware of your personal growth and recognizing how young age and inexperience can sometimes skew your sense of true comprehension of the task at hand. Subscribe for future videos!
Reason why the Globalists want older people to die.
Almost all the managers I have worked for suffered from the Dunning Kruger effect
I've spent 45+ years in the skilled trades. I really don't think it is so much that they overestimate their abilities, it is that they underestimate the difficulty and complexity of the jobs. They watch a highly skilled tradesman work for 15 minutes and then think it's a menial task that anyone could do.
I am a carpenter, I also got a degree in anthropology/archeology and have an pretty high IQ. You are right, people think the trades are physical jobs, and they are but being a good carpenter takes every bit of intellectual work I've got in me. The trades do not get the respect they deserve. Also dipshit hacks make a bad name for us.
This effect is the basic character of most CEO's I have met.
Wrong.. That's because CEOs have a superiority complex and they believe they are born to do big.
I cant believe that til this day people think the world is flat.
One Eratosthenes.
Two Obelisks.
Three Measurements.
It's as simple as 1,2,3, but Dunning-Kruger star students will refute science and data until the day they die. 🙄 It is what it is.
Trump U.grads🤮
That's because you can't. Your capacity can't go beyond the concept of "thinking" being a conclusive, simple mechanism.
I just learned about the Dunning Kruger effect, and I understand it perfectly!
Example: 80% of male students rated their driving skills as 'above average'.
It seems that the Untied States as a country suffers from Dunning-Kruger effect.
All countries do.
I can think of a group of people I am supposed both to "care" about and to always think well of, who could have been created by the god named DunningKruger. The description is on point.
This has nothing to do with stupidity. The right title should be "Why losers think they are smart?"
In America this effect is quickly become the workplace standard.
The American workplace is infested with managers who were hired because they have a degree, but absolutely no experience in the fields they're hired to manage workers in.
So we end up with managers who do a lot of big talking, while bossing around people whose jobs they themselves, don't know how to do.
Ignorance is desired in the commoners by the overlords; the ignorant become more inclined to accept official narratives without question - and then promulgate those narratives as a show of knowledge and virtue. As for the inexperienced executives, we have that in D.C. since 1979: The S.E.S. [Senior Executive Service], which bypasses civil servant restrictions on salary and merit, places less experienced political appointees in authority over more experienced employees.
@@DanielByers-qf9qi "Ignorance is desired in the commoners by the overlords; the ignorant become more inclined to accept official narratives without question..." YOU JUST DESCRIBED IGNORANT TRUMPERS AND HOW THEY FUNCTION MENTALLY.
Having a degree has nothing to do with it. Some people are just conceited. I worked with plenty of conceited bosses with no degree.
Trust me not just in America
Welcome to Israel. It is the same here.
The best cure for it is to assume you have it.
Wise.
Seeing it daily in YT comments. Where people glorify the video/author even if the facts are totally wrong. They just felt the entertaining overall sound and were comfortable.
I deal with this everyday at work. I’m the president of my company, and I always explain the reasoning to my decisions. But no matter how much I explain, how much research I do, people that fall into this effect, simply ignore all.
Stupid ones😂.
I resonate. After 30+ years of experience in my own industry, I'm absolutely baffled as to how many wealthy, entitled, pretentious narcissists will refute facts, research, and data that cannot possibly be denied... and yet, they're *convinced* that somehow, those things do not apply to them. 🙄 It's astounding and embarrassing. But it also explains how people like Chump, Theranos chick, Cryptocurrency creep, Alex Jones, Amber Heard, Zuck, Bezoz, and plenty more can "succeed" while simultaneously being Dunning-Kruger poster boys (and girls). Coin, connections, clout, crews, computer code, control, communities, and opportunities provide EXCELLENT cushions for toxic narcissists. With these resources at their command, they "fall upward" even when they fail. 🙄
I’ve seen this effects in people going into investments they don’t know, getting peanuts & call themselves great investors.
I am working with a lot of work in my work place. Most of them inflat what they are capable of doing, puffed with ego, not really open or honest. I don't care if anyone feel offended by unfiltered truth.
I know someone with confirmation bias lol. He will always, always and always read, listen or watch information which confirms his beliefs or world view. He will never, never and never challenge his views by reading contrary information to what he believes. And he has an attitude whereby he thinks he is very smart and intelligent. He thinks he is always right and always feels threatened when you start challenging his views and would defend his views to the core. So pathetic !!!!!!
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Sounds like a politician by the name Malema in South Africa
I knew a gambler who told me he was a great gambler after he had to move into my basement broke and homeless!! This was 2 months after he moved in i almost spit my coffee out and asked him why he was broke with nothing literally nothing zippo nada!! No car no money no cloths really nothing and he was a great gambler, he started all over and literally did it again i have no idea where he is now after gambling away 20k of my grand children's inheritance money!! This guy literally had about a 105 IQ worked at McDonalds got fired twice!!
He is smarter than you. You probably has 90 IQ because he was able to run with your grandchildren money.
So, which of you was more stupid?
I have met a lot of these people. They're a pain in the arse!
me same
Mee to.
This used to be called "being wise in one's own conceits," or just plain "presumption," as far as I know.
I have a note on the use of the 2008 financial failure as confirmation bias. About 3 years before, in 2005, my sister working in finance explained the debt structuring sell off. She diagramed it out for me, still have the noted. The companies were divesting because they already knew it was a house of cards everyone wad trying profit off of. The basic just was a game of musical chairs, the all knew the obscene profit would end when the 'music' ended and absolutely some would lose all with "no seat.Some were just willing to try profit to the last second if possible. She went thru the different countries at greatest risk of collapse. This all came from a banking deregulation done passed in H. W. Bush's presidency years early. The 'official' analysis is a bit of a lie.
Why do obtuse people with a little knowledge feel compelled to call other people stupid?
People who do not know the beginning from the end of all things are generally ignorant.
Jeeze Louise, this perfectly describes the most annoying people in my life.
does this apply to hubristic doctors who insisted MRNA shots are safe and still continue 'practicing' quackery?
One way to avoid the effect is to remember "There's always more to the surface than meets the eye." -- Aaron T. Beck, author of Cognitive Therapy and Emotional Disorders.
How do I know what I do not know when I do not know what I do not know?
It is an enlightening subject, Thanks
How do you create those animations. I mean what kind of software do you use?
the dunning krunger effect is an agument of energy
Your idea that the possession of information equates to smartness, is based on what? Your proposition then makes the 24 volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica on my shelf really smart!
I see an oxymoron kind of. The video starts out by saying Dunning Kruger Effect if found in people who lack "experience and knowledge" but at the same time people with extensive experience and knowledge fall to confirmation bias which leads back to the Dunning Kruger effect. Because an expert has extensive knowledge and experience, very few can challenge their authority. Overtime this expert gains a false sense of confidence and overestimates his abilities. aka The Dunning Kruger Effect.
🤔I suppose its why wisdom is soo difficult to obtain.
I like how this video ended. Educate people to decide for themselves rather then listen to a central authority. During in covid, there was this push for confirmation bias, to listen to what the CDC sais as law and ignore 2nd opinions. Censorship everywhere. They pushed it as science. The fact is that sometimes science is too slow and in the case of covid everyone was making opinions. Including the CDC.
It is not that complicated. Just look at all the deaths caused by the lies on covid by Fox Noise.
@@victorolvera6482$cience was pretty fast in producing bioweapons in Wuhan . And in inventing bat legends . Dunning Kruger bats or criminal expertise ?
I think you do not understand the Dunning Kruger effect. The paper about it also claims the opposite. People who study a subject learn how much they do not know about the subject, there is always more information about the subject and they will be arrogant towards people who never studied the subject but verry insecure when talking to peers. The more you know about the subject, the more questions you will have about it.
@@deacom8528 Is there any truth to the saying: People with extensive backgrounds maybe humble as students but arrogant as teachers.
Also, decision makers are subject to: Confirmation Bias because they may loose face when they are wrong.
I mean why does a person become cocky in the first place?
ANYWAYS my point is I don't like centralized authority. And didn't like what happened during covid days.
1st: DK asked “amongst your peer group, where do you assess yourself,” not amongst all persons. DK never looked at novices versus expert. 2nd, imagine you’re in the top tier, you can only be correct in your assessment or have underestimated as you are bounded at the top. Imagine if you’re at the bottom tier, similarly, you could only assess correctly or overestimate due to the zero bound. Hence there’s no room but for this vestige of “DK effect” to occur. 3rd, DK never showed a “Valley of Stupid,” that is others projecting. 4th, we’re egocentric, of course the lines of assessment tend to be more flat than actual performance as we see ourselves as the center of our peer groups. After all, we define our own peer groups. Lastly, it is AUTOCORRELATION. You’re breaking the tiers up by how they assess themselves and scoring them by how they assess themselves. In other words, DK Effect Does Not Exist. It is a comforting story but it is nothing more. There are no real life examples as this does not exist.
Very well stated!
The Dumb and Dumber effect, you become stupid after watching too many Jim Carey movies
While working as a system engineer, I experienced a different variant of this effect: extremely smart and capable engineers in specialized disciplines overestimating their competency in other disciplines. These extremely bright individuals didn't understand the limits of their competency. I think its harder for bright people to understand what they don't know than it is for more mentally challenged.
Great point...It sounds like the common psychological theme is that overconfidence, mixed with a lack of awareness, causes people to overestimate their abilities to their detriment or to the detriment of others. Thanks for commenting!
My memories and dreams are kind of like when you see those AI generated videos. When you try and focus on a certain area it either shifts or blurs.
Is it impostor syndrome or are they pushed by the goal of equity to be in over their heads and know it?
Over confidence and confused thinking is dunning kruger effect. 😅
Clever and intelligence are not the same
Informative
Thanks for watching!
DT is a great example
Make Prison Great Again!😂
I often wonder: suppose a creditor tries to collect a debt from Freddie the Sleep Demon. Suppose the creditor sends Freddie a letter, warning that his credit rating will be ruined if he doesn't pay up. Would the creditor then be ... DUNNING KRUGER???
As far as the 2008 financial bust goes, I think it is also possible that more than just the Dunning-Kruger effect was at play. I think the "Bandit" type in the graph of stupidity was at play more. I think the financial experts were smart enough, but their desires to take advantage for their own self betterment was paramount in their decisions and subsequent actions surrounding investments and financial policies. In either case, still a good and accurate example of Dunning-Kruger.
There was one guy on late night radio who predicted the crash and everyone said he was a conspiracy nut. What I want to know is, why didn't any of the "so called" financial experts seem the 2008 Global Financial Disaster coming? The first indicator was Mercedes divesting itself of Chrysler .
The Dumbing Kruger Effect.
I have dunning-kruger workmates - the more that I know; the less that I know
Is labeling someone as being stupid smart?
Stockton Rush comes to mind.
On the Internet, Experts talk a lot about their fields. Is that dunning Kruger effect? A person exhibits dunning Kruger effect; is it confirmation bias or is it another dunning Kruger effect (misreading people with supposed dunning Kruger effect). Are reserved people truly knowledgeable or do they lack confidence due to impostor syndrome. Psychology can make you go round and round and round without arriving at a conclusion.
All one needs to do is to watch jaywalking outside of major colleges school teachers all kinds of dum asses on wonder this world is so messed up 😢
I will try to NOT BE THAT way. Critical thinking can prevent me to do it. I do try to prove muself wrong
Dunning-kruger effect = all religious people
OK, how about accepting that a lot of the "conspiracy theories" regarding, for example the origins of COVID, turned out to be true, even though credentialed people claimed publicly that they were false. Is that also included in your idea of reexamining your premises? Or is examining the possibility that conspiracies actually do exist, and sometimes people guess them right from the evidence, off limits?
Yeah. It applies as much to one side as the other. But he chooses to use subjects like "conspiracy theorists" and flat earth, rather than benign examples. So he's encouraging confirmation bias and conformity of thought. His reference to groups is irrelevant-and manipulative.
Usuualy this is the effect of smart people. Like doctors. Not stupid people
Just asking because common sense ain't common bub!
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In my country, argentina, People with this Bais is called kirchneristas, and they ruling it. 50% of the society also. ❤
What? The earth is not flat? 🤣
Every ideas reasonable idea worth considering,
Don’t use Dunning Kruger’s effect as an excuse to reject and humiliate others…
we might not realise we are actually on which part of the curve.
Right... That's the point of shedding light on the concept of the Dunning-Kruger effect....to ultimately raise the level of awareness to those that are at the earlier stages of the learning curve. Thanks for the comment.
Your throwing out flat earth as an example of this effect is hilarious and ironic, since this is exactly what is produced by the ridiculous tales of the jargon and big numbers pumped out by NASA and psudo-science. People who don't subscribe to this are well aware it doesn't take a genius to question the spinning globe. They also are well aware of the limitations in "knowing" the truth; as well as others lack of willingness to question anything "official". They've heard the information presented. They just don't think it aligns with experience, common sense, or anything realistic. Reality, science, etc. is fairly easy to grasp with some effort...@improving-everyday
The Dunning-Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task. - Wikipedia
Like someone who says DUDE 😅😂😅😂
Or was McArthur Wheeler just crazy
if dunning kruger effect can affect scientists!! like the big bang and the Evolution of species theory! growth mindset and dunning kruger effect shoud be part of epistemology and the scientific critique of knowledge and the evolution of knowledge!
and the eternal change of reality!
Kant is a case study of this effect. He was a maladjusted nerd that thought writing thousands of barely decipherable pages and doing the exact same thing at the exact same time everyday was how he was superior to everyone else. I. Kant didn't even have the balls to leave northeast Prussia and claimed experience was a necessity of knowledge. I Kant leave home and I Kant get a girlfriend because society.... Sounds like he was the incel of The Enlightenment. Ppppfffftttt it took him 10 years to get a part time teaching gig. Epistemology, gtfoh.
On a more educated and rational note, I agree that a growth mindset should be a part of teaching epistemology. However, I think it would change the ideology on a fundamental level and cause a different ethos all together. What do you think?
@@LandoShmetzP.Absolutely! like the refrain of the song (I mean when it comes to the study of education...) all ideologies will reiterate: I'll be there!
-thank you for the comment, cheers.
The lack of 'functional stupidity' and adherence to the ruling masspsychosis, can be harmful to your career and wellbeing.
Better examples would have been Congressional Investigations….the questions and the testimony
Jack Smith et al have compelling cases with evidence and witness testimonie.
Yes go to the Philippines you will experience the entire culture with the dunning-kruger effect I am not exaggerating
Fani Willis
The View is a great example.
I think the DK effect as applied to minority groups is false and reflect inequalities that minorities suffer: ie, the playing field in not level in that respect. Thus that application is not universally true.
I see this every day. People's Google wisdom😂. Those lazy people just read the titles...
But when asking them what that means? Then they look(and are) very stupid.
Nobody's that dum,you point out obsurd lies people told and you feel superior while the rest of us just think,ya right.
Followers a middle Eastern faith of recent origins would come under the Dunning-Kruger doctrine for belief in flat earth because an immutable “book” commands so!😅
The book never said it is flat you should read it first before being yourself in a Dunning-Kruger effect
@abdelabdel675 the sun sets in a muddy pond and rises next day after taking permission 😀😅😂🤣
Know your beliefs.
"You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it.'
- Friedrich Nietzsche
As you can not add to existing video's, please consider remaking this video with a lot of research on the Dunning Kruger effect in smart people, i think that title would even do good in the youtube algorithm. "Intelligent people and the Dunning Kruger effect". I notice the effect even with people who have a phd. They do not fall for it in the subject of their study, but they can think they are smart on every field of study, and that is so dangerous. Someone with a phd in biology who is claiming global warming is fake or Muslims want to take over the world. They are so dangerous because they are able to put phd in front of their name and everybody believes them.
I'm always scared of faling into the Dunning Kruger effect, people around me getting tired of the discussions, but i want to be proven wrong. I recognize myself in the Conformation Bias the most, it's always hard for me to push myself into reading about stuff i do not agree with.
Just talk to any teenager... :)
AUR KITNII PhDs chahiye...😄😄😄150 TO KARR liya
Fo sho
I know I'm smart so I dont need to watch this.
Pretty much describes everyone in American politics right now. It's sickening and I really don't want to be a part of it, which is why I'm not voting anymore.
This comment might epitomize and support the above supposition. We shall see. However, as a college-level educator, one fact is certain. Academics, whether pupils or well-respected and well-lettered researchers, frequently will provide what they claim are well-known, long-since proven, and widely accepted principles, theories, and laws of a given field. And, these are little more than false premises quickly crafted in support of an even weaker rhetorical argument.
Whether this (DK) truly is a documented psychological effect that many humans experience or not is unknown. Because, only a survey course in psychology was had as an undergraduate. And, that was well-before 1999. It might just be the equivalent of many citations seen in student's research papers each and every term, simply fabricated. Yet, that does not necessarily mean that is not valuable, worthwhile, or true. It might be basically a position-paper in a reference. Which has happened among the ranks of professional research and produced marvelous and astounding results.
The best measure of smart, versus not-so-smart, is the learning taxonomy of Bloom. When, one might create and fashion "new concepts" from the knowledge that they already hold. They have reached its highest-level are quite brilliant. It really matters little whether it has been done before. Being first is not very important; doing as well as, and quite possibly at any earlier age speaks volumes. That is from the perspective of an educator. Years of study and investigation in a particular subfield is not needed. Before, this be achieved.
And, reaching Bloom's highest level might be more challenging for some than others.
And frequently, years of learning stymie the natural-giftings and innovative nature of those with a great aptitude for achievement in a field. As, it is well-known among us who teach computing. A very popular professional-skills assessment, the Berger Aptitude Exam and its advanced version typically see higher scores from the same student. When, he takes it before a full baccalaureate program. Often, it is first given before middle school. Something about learning a discipline as it is formally taught breaks one' s skills. For some reason, an advanced "formal" education ruins the "natural genius" within all of us. However, it sadly increases the unmalleable-tendencies of personal pride.
And, the best of teachers will tell anyone young student the very same notion that is stated above in a very different way, "One does not know. What he does not know.". With, ["you little prodigy"] implied. Hence, he is completely unaware of what he "supposedly" cannot do. Based upon, what any stuffy, argyle sweater toting, oxford shoe wearing, doctorate in "such and much" might say is an "impossibility of impossibilities" with all sincerity. And, that would be sworn of a stack of dusty journal articles and texts based upon the work someone proposed in a time and environment long passed. Yet when, life changes. Some of those beliefs, scientific and otherwise, that we all hold dear; do also. And, a classroom of "clueless" and rather "ingenious" students, albeit, that they might simply be at the elementary or worse yet sophomoric level, might very well produce more Field Medal, Turing Award, and Nobel Prize caliber ideas between recess, lunch, and Sesame Street; than the combined efforts of a international conference of academicians over the course of a few decades.
And, they might do such for a few extra graham crackers and milk. Yes, out of the mouth of babes....
Life has shown that many will recraft the most troubling of scientific and mathematics problems with the most fundamental of terms and then offer them for the solution by elementary and secondary school students. And, on more than a few occasions, some meaningful work has been done. As, a secondary school classmate did on a Putnam examination during the late-1980s. When, he effectively solved what many modern students of computing deem insolvable. As, they are taught without question. A full scholarship and a MIT doctorate followed.
So, "not knowing what one does not know" might place one at quite an advantage for meaningful accomplishment. Because, he might see far beyond certain well-respected theories widely-accepted as the most unquestionable of Holy Grails. And, those academic lessons which teach that one of the greats in the field said such is "unattainable" often place a "logical" and "virtual" barrier within one's mind concerning accomplishment. And thus, he never dares cross it, like a tape square drawn around a toddler in a large playroom. It is a nearly eternal "time-out" of sorts,.
And, different disciplines have varying perspectives on similar aspects of life, general sociology teaches that we imitate before we become. It is part of acclimating oneself in a new setting and maturing when entering a new role. That phrase "one must fake it. Until, he makes it" might be seen as having many unique meanings. For, Picasso fabricated his work. Until, he produced numerous masterpieces.
So, the state of an impostor is had by all at some time when "new". Being stuck in that place of professional career growth is one of the worst of life's dilemma. And, truth be told, the vast majority of folks remain as such; because, reaching beyond that simply is not required. Why earn a MBA. When, one might simply purchase a Brook Brother's suit, Allen Edmond shoes, leather braces, plus the rest; sit at a large walnut desk on the seventieth floor of a glass tower; and let your staff generate innovation ideas and income. And of which only requires an occasional signature for the continued accumulation of more wealth than some incorporated communities in this world. Pardon, the exaggeration. But, why become truly knowledgeable in any subject. If, it ultimately is a case of diminishing returns. One must simply be smart enough that he does not become smarter than he should be for the rewards.
It is time that someone stop impersonating a college-level professor, he dusts off his life skills textbook, and gets ready for another day of class, before work as a baggage-clerk after school. Anyone need a "bag"?
The Dunning Kruger Effect is also called Liberalism
Funny this made me think of Elon Musk and Donald Trump. They both fit this effect
Add Ron Desanity to that list😇
Don't you know that the Dunning Kruger effect has been debunked?
Running handin hand with the Biden Harris Effect.
So everyone who believes in a God is under Denning Kruger effect 😂
Not really if that was the case there wouldn't be so many different people that believe in God and so many different religions
A real example of the Dunning-Krueger Effect…. Listening to Dr. Fauci ONLY in regards to COVID. But NOT also listening to YOUR doctor in addition to Fauci’s advice.
DEI = DKE 😀
This needs a Bosnian Ape Society version
This was acceptable until it got “progressive “. 6:20.
There is no overwhelming evidence that the earth is not flat.
How about Donald Trump? He's the poster child for the D-K Effect.
This explains the Biden administration
The algorithms have put me on the liberal side of the spectrum. But that’s what happens when you follow PHDs.
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Thats some fast talking woke crap ,
THIS EXPLAINS THE DONALD!!! Art
The most evident effect of the dunning Kruger effect is trump, a guy that thinks he knows it all, he doesn’t know that he doesn’t know squat
Trump is the textbook definition of the Dunning-Kruger effect!
"With great ignorance comes great confidence." - New Yorker Cartoon
He that knows nothing will believe anything. - Thomas Fuller
One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts. - C.S. Lewis
The woke liberals and cancel culture. Protests and shutting people up for disagreements. College kids and administrators thinking they are too smart to hear opposing ideas from speakers on campus. Stay a sheep
HEY I THINK WE WERE LEAD BY A GUY THAT SUFFERS FROM THE D&K EFFECT. We almost got FOOLED twice even. NEVER THREE TIMES!! art