What’s Behind the Confidence of the Incompetent? (washingtonpost.com)

1 points by litoE 4y ago ↗ HN

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Reminder: Dunning-Kruger is partially to completely a statistical artifact, and an uninteresting consequence of measurement error.

richardatlarge 4y ago ↗

On the one hand we have Donald Trump, which proves the rule, or is the exception. Then we have HN: plentiful in confidence, not so high in incompetence.