Why we all fall victim to the Dunning-Kruger effect – BBC REEL

How can anyone learn anything if not being taught something first? It shows us how much there really is out there.

Religious zealots are the worst offenders...lol.

I try to get into the habit of not underestimating even the tiniest problem or factor of anything I do, because it's all too often been the thing I've taken for granted that makes me have to backtrack. Yes, the less you know, the less you know you don't know, and the reverse effect (Kruger-Dunning, maybe they should call it) is the more you know, the more you're likely to underestimate it or assume everyone else knows better, because you realise how much you don't know.

BEWARE! THIS IS AN UNDERHANDED WAY TO PREP YOU TO OBEY "EXPERTS", WHICH MEANS, "THEM", NOT YOUR GOD-GIVEN COMMON SENSE AND PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. BY ALL MEANS, BE HUMBLE, BECAUSE YOU CANNOT KNOW EVERYTHING, BUT DO NOT FALL INTO THEIR TRAP.

A GOOD ARTICLE WOULD BE ABOUT WHY IS THE WORLD POLARIZED. THIS VIDEO IS A MINUSCULE PATCH. BUT THEN, IT'S FROM FROM ONE OF THE MAIN PROPAGANDA MACHINES OF THOSE THAT MAKE THE WORLD POLARIZED.

Vocal fry.... 😝

If we all make errors, does this mean the Dunning - Kruger effect is wrong?

This is why 'beginners mind' is so important. It's a great habit to fact check one's self constantly and question beliefs one holds. I've learned to enjoy telling people, "I was wrong, you got it right". But then, my motto for decades has been, "I'd rather know the truth than be right." I didn't start there, I started always having to be 'right'. All I had to do was decades of work to grow as a person.
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It works between people who are not narcissistic.
Being narcissistic is the very core of this problem.

so how come some can memorize things easily and some like me don't? How can we improve our memory by being intellectually humble?

First rule of Dunning-Kruger Club:
You don't realise you're in.

I remember, as a non-American, watching Trey Gowdy digging into Hillary at Benghazi hearings..... Trump's declassified files is more important than her 33,000 emails? Makes no sense.

This has all come about because people have been taught to guess first with their ideas and so disregard any forensic approach to forming them. So humility doesn't even have to come into it, just a proper approach to discussion and what empirical science reveals.

And what do you call when you're fighting to get an answer and everyone else is purposely ignoring the question? ROTATE THE MICHELSON MORLEY INTERFEROMETER VERTICALLY!

The scientific imagination begins with saying, 'I don't know, let me find out more'

To error is human
To forgive is Devine

Nobody knows more about the Kruger Dunning effect than I do! I am an expert on the subject.

I liked the topic but the animations were too busy and distracting that I had to turn away from the screen to actually follow what they were saying. Too bad, says something about how tired I am this morning... I would suggest using less busy animations though..

We see this everywhere these days, and it's causing so many problems. I've noticed a very real correlation between ignorance and arrogance; very few people I know who are truly brilliant are also arrogant.

"OF COURSE I believe that but I could be wrong"

Nice display of dichotomous intellectual humility

"I am never wrong. Once I thought I was wrong. But, I was mistaken." Not sure who said that

The more I learn, the more I realize how much I DON'T know.

Is anyone else thinking of Justin Trudeau while viewing this?

You can take a horse to water but you can't make it think ;-)
-as an idealist I'm compelled to be optimistic about 'our' future but ..... ;-/

"Why YOU GUYS all fall victim to the Dunning-Kruger effect"

I never fall victim to the Dunning-Kruger effect. I am an expert at determining when I lack expertise.

If a persons intelligence is a choice and we could make Einstein's out of all of us with the "right" education, why do the current failed way we are educating create 99% idiots and one Einstein? (The % is worse than that. Einstein is one in number of humans on the planet.)

The stupid lacks the intelligence to realize how stupid they are.

The world has been incentivising the loud and brash. So much of "put yourself out there", "blow your own horn" etc. No one should be surprised when the individual who just did a 2 day bootcamp then believes he/she is the newest leading expert in the whole wide world.

OK, a growth mindset with regard to human intelligence is more conducive to intellectual humility than a fixed mindset is, but which account of human intelligence is actually true*? *Is human intelligence something fixed, or can it grow in anyone indefinitely?

and this is classic western ideologies. you are not what you think you are because you did not graduate from a recognized institution. so then should we not be digging into who were the actual qualified ones who gave us the past knowledge.

If only everyone are aware of their own limitation and you know ... be more humble. Because ignorance is within everyone.

Tired to see people whose so smug about their knowledge and refuse criticism (by someone they see as inferior) or even new ideas. Especially my experience in this thing called internet.

Even more frustrating when a person pointing ignorance or cockiness of somebody else and not self-reflecting it to themselves (which is why I hate myself).

As a dissenting opinion I point out that most profs are bad teachers. If you understand your subject well enough younshould be able to explain it to your grandmother. It seems most do not and are pedantic about it . I suspect Dunning Kruger is popular among this set of barely knowledgeable instructors as a defense against the "uneducated" questioners.

I'm not that smart, but I could be wrong

Summary
1. We all have pockets of incompetence although over time we are becoming more intolerant of other peoples opinions which are contrary to ours. These people don’t learn and hence more likely to be wrong. Be intellectually humble.
2. Adopting a growth mindset is understanding intelligence can be developed.
3. People who are intellectually humble have more favorable opinions of the others and helps us make progress.

I recognize I suffer from "Dunning-Kurger effect" , therefore I don't suffer from it? :-D

When I graduated from HS, I thought I was extremely brilliant. When I graduated from college, I was just amazed at my limitations and how little knowledge I possessed. Learning is very humbling.

Dunning-Kruger Effect is a scientifically proven false biased study. The x and y variables are co-related. there are studies without the bias, and did not find such conclusions as the Dunning-Kruger Effect. look it up. There are YT videos on the fallacy that the Dunning-Kruger Effect is based upon. BBC Dunning-Kruger-ed themselves.

The BBC does get that it is describing itself.....doesn't it?

"I never let school get in the way of my education" -- Mark Twain. Warm professor love, and everyone getting a degree that affirms their ability to give the right answer is also a cause of this. From Socrates, to Jordan Peterson, to GK Chesterton, and the above mentioned Mark Twain, the mark of an intelligent person is the ability to entertain an idea, without embracing the idea.

But hey, just boil everything down to some type if "ism" or "ist", and we can just dismiss the person based on character or melanin content, it's easier that way.

There is also the reverse: intelligent people do not realize that others do not do their "homework." So the uniformed are confident while the knowledgeable have, very real, doubts.

Especially BBC reporters.

Put this into school education

Did anyone else detect the irony of not mentioning a middle ground between the "growth" and "fixed" mindsets? I am sure we can grow, but I am also sure some people are particularly screwed from the start. Not everyone for either of course, which is actually the point.

I always find it peculiar that videos like these seem to emerge when something f*cked up happens. For example, should we intellectually humble ourselves to the Christo-Fascists ideas of stripping away our fundamental human rights?

I just think of it as there is the real world, and it operates on wholly logical principles, and then each of us individually have an emotional world (where we "feel" what it right) and it operates on our pleasure and pain principles. We just have to self-reflect on the times when our emotional world is trying to over-ride the real world, and readjust. It doesn't mean we're always wrong when our emotional world tries to take over, but you can't force the square peg into the round hole either.

❤️ Nothing is cement certain! We grow when we update our knowledge, learn and unlearn and learn.
Being intellectually humility really surprises you when you learn that you were in the dark about a certain thing. That's a humbling experience.

With the whole BBC archive? you use generic stock footage. 😳 Come on auntie!