Marginalium

A note in the margins

February 1, 2021

The Role of Contextual Noise in the Dunning-Kruger Effect:

both experts and novices underestimate and overestimate their skills with the same frequency. “It’s just that experts do that over a narrower range,” he wrote

It’s may not so much be ignorance that makes us overconfident as the contextual noise. An error in conclusion I’ve made myself


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