2023-11-26 Hacker News Top Articles and Its Summaries
1. The Dunning-Kruger effect is autocorrelation Total comment counts : 70 Summary The Dunning-Kruger effect refers to the tendency for unskilled individuals to overestimate their competence. However, recent evidence suggests that the Dunning-Kruger effect may be a statistical artifact rather than a genuine psychological phenomenon. Autocorrelation, which occurs when a variable is correlated with itself, can create the illusion of the Dunning-Kruger effect. The effect was initially discovered in an experiment where participants completed a skills test and self-assessed their ability....