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by mistercow 4633 days ago
I'd actually be pretty surprised if the Dunning-Kruger effect applied significantly to politics. There are so many tribal pressures involved that I think that the phenomena involved with Dunning-Kruger would be overwhelmed.
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In representative democracy, probably yes. But D-K effect is commonly used as an argument against (semi)direct democracy.