[robocat]

> It’s all a bit Dunning-Kruger to me

Fantastic article on the reproducability of Dunning-Kruger effect: https://replicationindex.com/2020/09/13/the-dunning-kruger-e...

Also see: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation" https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...

Lovely quote:

  “These responses to our work have also furnished us moments of delicious irony, in that each critique makes the basic claim that our account of the data displays an incompetence that we somehow were ignorant of.” (Dunning, 2011, p. 247).

Of course Dunning-Kruger is self-referential. Any mention of Dunning-Kruger automatically makes you a victim on wrong side of the graph.

[lusus_naturae]

I think the term is still useful for giving words to a phenomenon people experience. I guess a less charitable and more presumptuous term of such behavior would be calling the person displaying it narcissistic.