Diagnostic self-deception reminds me of the The Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias that causes people people who have low abilities to overestimate their own abilities, while underestimating the abilities of others.
Interesting parallel. I'm constantly trying to avoid the D-K effect when I write these newsletters, because the topics tend to be outside of my area of expertise, and this effect crops up when people who don't know much overestimate their knowledge.
You prompted a happy memory. When I came to Cornell for my PhD in 1986, Dunning was in his first year as an assistant prof, and he eventually served on my committee. (He hadn't begun the D-K effect work yet, though he was already intrigued by the question of how a person might come to know that they don't know something.) At the time, the psych department at Cornell wasn't a particularly warm and fuzzy place, but Dunning treated everyone with kindness, including me. I didn't feel the usual ego and blustery self-assertion.
Diagnostic self-deception reminds me of the The Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias that causes people people who have low abilities to overestimate their own abilities, while underestimating the abilities of others.
Interesting parallel. I'm constantly trying to avoid the D-K effect when I write these newsletters, because the topics tend to be outside of my area of expertise, and this effect crops up when people who don't know much overestimate their knowledge.
You prompted a happy memory. When I came to Cornell for my PhD in 1986, Dunning was in his first year as an assistant prof, and he eventually served on my committee. (He hadn't begun the D-K effect work yet, though he was already intrigued by the question of how a person might come to know that they don't know something.) At the time, the psych department at Cornell wasn't a particularly warm and fuzzy place, but Dunning treated everyone with kindness, including me. I didn't feel the usual ego and blustery self-assertion.
That’s a great story, Ken. Thank you for sharing it. I did my undergrad at Cornell, long before you arrived.
Go Big Red...! (No idea if they still say that.)