I guess Fitzpatrick hit a nerve when he alluded to dedicated apologizers of global warming alarmism may be showing the The Dunning — Kruger effect... a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer
from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average.
Wikipedia summarises the effect as «a cognitive bias in which the unskilled suffer
from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than average».
Now the claim that all indie / self published authors are «unskilled individuals who suffer
from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate» is a little strong and very much out of line.
That would also categorize me as one of the «unskilled individuals who suffer
from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate.
Indie authors are «unskilled individuals that suffer
from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate.
Alfonse here is suffering from the «Dunning — Kruger» effect which is a cognitive bias in which unskilled individuals suffer
from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate.
Not exact matches
The cognitive bias of
illusory superiority derives
from the metacognitive inability of low - ability persons to recognize their own ineptitude; without the self - awareness of metacognition, low - ability people can not objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence»