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Uploaded on Apr 27, 2009
The Dunning-Kruger effect.
Justin Kruger & David Dunning.
Unskilled and unaware of It: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.
Journal of personality and social psychology
1999, vol.77, no.6, pp1121-1134
©1999 by American Psychological Association, Inc.
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PERCENTILES.
For those unfamiliar with percentile rankings, briefly....
Say you get 95% of questions right in a test — sounds good. But if everyone else does, then your performance is actually average. Percentiles are a method of marking, which ranks your score COMPARATIVE to other scores within a population.
If you rank at the 10th percentile, 10 percent of all scores, in the population tested, fall BELOW you. If you rank at the 90th percentile, 90 percent of all test results fall BELOW you — you've made it to the top 10. 50% is dead on average.
Bizarrely, in a tendency which has been termed the 'above-average effect', it seems most people — no matter what their competence/ability — perceive themselves as above average, hovering around the 60th percentile.
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For people with hearing issues, your video is difficult to understand because the black and white jitter obscures your mouth for lipreading. Hope someday all video will be automatically encoded with Closed Captioning.
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Who said you look like Garth Marenghi? In this video you look like Nick Frost.
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'In this video you look like Nick Frost.'
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Nina C 5 months ago
this makes everything make so much sense!
one of life's mysteries for me was how complete idiots remain so smug about it
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Michael Bertrand 4 months ago
Next time someone is doing something incredibly stupid and can't seem to understand why it isn't working, I am going to say "But you're wearing the juice!"
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petec17 8 hours ago
Damn. I really hope my feelings of superiority up to this point haven't been an illusion. I DON'T WANT TO BE STUPID.
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iMbenjee 2 days ago
Your video is wrong
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Rhys Oliver 3 days ago
I think you look a like Bill Hicks a stand up comidian in his revalations show. sorry if youve heard this one before.
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IIJG27Rich 2 weeks ago
Loved it. Just one suggestion and please don't take offense but the flashing on the face is dangerous for epileptics like me self :)
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AncientAtheist 2 weeks ago
Hi Link! Hope all is well. Just stopping by for a refresher on the Dunning Kruger Effect. Was thinking about it the other day but couldn't remember what it was called. Must say something about my competence, huh? ;)
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