Yet another reminder that all the mentions of Dunning-Kruger are a better display of it’s perceived effect than the original study ever was. In the original study, people correctly predicted their performance relative to others, but the discrepancy was in the scale of that difference, which can be attributed to numerous factors. Dumb people just took it as “stupid people think they’re smart” and run around saying “Dunning-Kruger” to sound smarter… oh the irony.
And yes, given two mentions in the above text, this is, indeed, a suicide by words.
kamenlady@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not only there, it’s a world wide phenomenon. I keep hearing this kind of shit from people here in Germany and my family in Brazil.
waldo_was_here@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Same here in Belgium
Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
worldpopulationreview.com/…/average-iq-by-country
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
IQ has a history of racism, literally eugenics stuff.
Probably not a good idea to trust this psudoscience BS. Racial minorities got sterilized over this.
Zerush@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Well, it is always needed to take IQ tests with a grain of salt, there are several type of intelligences and the tests normally show only the analytic capability to solve problems, but not the emotional or social intelligence to solve conflicts, which is equal or even more important. Not the tests as such are racists but the interpretation of priorities in the evaluation that is applied.
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