The Irony of the Dunning-Kruger Effect

<div>Examining the irony of the well-loved Dunning-Kruger effect. For further resources, see below. Sources: * The original study: Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(6), 1121-1134. * The mentioned 2013 study: Simons, D. J. (2013). Unskilled and optimistic: Overconfident predictions despite calibrated knowledge of relative skill. Psychon Bill Rev, 20, 601-607. * The mentioned 2018 study: Sanchez, C., Dunning, D. (2018). Overconfidence Among Beginners: Is a Little Learning a Dangerous Thing? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(1), 10-28. * More information by Dunning: Dunning, D. (2011). The Dunning-Kruger Effect: On Being Ignorant of One's Own Ignorance. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 247-296. Pictures taken from unsplash.com. Music taken from the YouTube Audio Library: "Urban Lullaby" by Jimmy Fontanez and Doug Maxwell "Hedge Your Bets" by TrackTribe "Steel" by RalphReal Created with Adobe Audition, Adobe Premiere Pro, and Adobe After Effects. Chapters: 00:00 Mount Stupid 01:32 The Real Dunning-Kruger Effect 04:56 The Irony Not that there is much to be seen, but I do have a Twitter account: <a target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" href="https://twitter.com/VallisYT">https://twitter.com/VallisYT</a> Video No. 1</div>