Assessment of the Confidence Calibration Test + new test
Yesterday, I posted a new cognitive test on taketest.xyz, the Confidence Calibration Test. If you want to take the test without biased results, take it now before reading further. You…
New video out on the Dunning Kruger effect, of lack thereof
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19NB8MtlPIQ This is the accompanying video of our 2021 paper: Kirkegaard, E. O. W. & Gerritsen, A. (2021). Looking for evidence of the Dunning-Kruger effect: an analysis of 2400 online…
Recent paper about democracy and self-assessment/Dunning-Kruger
More mainstream article that mentioned the study: http://news.yahoo.com/people-arent-smart-enough-democracy-flourish-scientists-185601411.html The actual paper: A Mathematical Model of Democratic Elections Original Dunning-Kruger paper: unskilledandunaware "Abstract: Democratic election is the preferred method for determining…
Ars Technica: “Cheaters believe they’re that good, even when they’re not”
Very much reading reading. And of course, the original Dunning–Kruger paper is very much worth reading. It's time to adjust those self-assessments, is it not?