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The Dunning-Kruger effect is auto-correlation. From the article:

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-k...

> The irony is that the situation is actually reversed. In their seminal paper, Dunning and Kruger are the ones broadcasting their (statistical) incompetence by conflating autocorrelation for a psychological effect. In this light, the paper’s title may still be appropriate. It’s just that it was the authors (not the test subjects) who were ‘unskilled and unaware of it’.