Dunning-Kruger Effect
"A cognitive bias in which relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is. Dunning and Kruger attributed this bias to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their own ineptitude and evaluate their own ability accurately. Their research also suggests corollaries: highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others."
What does this even mean? I'll put it into Layman's Terms for you, see below.
In short terms, the Dunning-Kruger effect states that the greater level of idiocy an individual has, the less they realize their own folly. The dumber you are the less you acknowledge your own stupidity. The same goes for the inverse, the more intelligent and well-educated you become, there is a realization of how much you actually know. The more informed and able you become, the greater you tend you underestimate yourself and your abilities and knowledge.
So do you rest confidently on your knowledge? Or are you actually so dumb you are ignorantly confident? Or is this paradox a false idea?
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