This is why stupid people think they know everything.

Man these unskippable preroll ads are getting spookily well targeted

As one of the worlds leading experts on Dunning Kruger I'd be happy to set you right on a few points.

I asked my brother if he was more confident in doing home improvements now that he has owned a house for 4 years. He said “no my confidence is exactly the same as 4 years ago” “I was delusional 4 years ago. But my confidence hasn’t changed.

Is this a personal attack?

I almost fell prey to the Dunning Kruger Effect by not clicking on this video because I thought that I knew everything there was to know about it. Almost! But then I got curious: What else could there be? The video is 24 minutes long. That's much longer than what I would need to explain what I knew about the Dunning Kruger Effect. What could he possibly have to say about it that I do not know, even though I have a degree in psychology? Well, clicking on the video turned out to be the right decision.

And we wonder how people who couldn't tell you what the ingredients in Tylenol do think they understand a pandemic and vaccines better than the medical community...

Is there another interestingly named effect to explain why people who excell in one very narrow field think that means they are good at everything?

The weirdest version I would have experienced with this, is how i tought my exams went. When I didn't study enough, I'd overestimate my results. When I studied a lot, I'd think I had failed them. They were mostly multiple choice so guessing was always An option

0:09 I was just about to skip this ad, and then I realized that it's a part of the video's beginning

A rule of thumb: double check everything. A mistake is more damaging and a setback than the time it takes to double check. For example, you write a document, then don't press the send, but the following day, re-read it and if good then send or else fix and then double check again.

LMAO the driving on salvia refference

Man, I already have a complex about not being good enough, you're saying I'm even more incompetent than I realise!? Haha!

I was put in charge of a group of people to restart a failed project. An understanding of the Dunning-Kruger effect saved me weeks of frustration, anger, and wasted time. I was able to pick out bullshit artists almost instantly because a person claiming to know more than everyone else was never right. Not even once. It was a battle but would have been a quagmire if I believed people who claimed to "know it all"

My brother-in-law (16 years younger than me) was constantly giving me unwanted advice about how to be a good father when my kids were young, even though he had no children of his own at the time. My three sons are young adults now, and they turned out to be awesome people: intelligent, well adjusted, happy, successful, thriving, kind, hard working, generous, social, decent human beings. He currently has one child (an 8 year-old daughter), and let’s just say that his “dad skills” are pretty bad. His ego and sense of superiority are truly mind-boggling.

I know that the more I know the more I want to know. I seek that my matter be in a constant state of curiosity. And I find reality consistently surprises me.

I have a saying that a person only knows what they know now. Its hard to explain things to a person sometimes because they only know "for sure" what they know now, even if its a biased opinion or incorrect fact, they are only aware and have been living out that opinion, so its hard to get some one to open their mind. Its hard also for people to conceive this, which is why some people get very angry in arguments. I read a quote the other day that went something like: "When you have an open mind, other people try to put things into it."

Loved the video and explanation! It's interesting to think about how the Dunning-Kruger effect might vary across gender and culture, especially since the common (and probably wrong) assumption is that it affects everyone equally. And if the entire effect is not real...woo boy...we need a new explanation as to why so many people over the past 18 months have reached the belief that they know enough to be on equal footing with epidemiologists and infectious disease docs regarding all things COVID, despite having no relevant training or experience whatsoever.

The more you know, the less you know. By the way, your knowledge of filmmaking is amazing.

Thank you. I'm gonna share this to my coworkers together with my resignation letter. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Hi ! Thank you for this video, it was interesting, I like the way you put things in perspective. I just found the background music a little loud, it made it difficult to understand what you said at times. I'm also very glad to see you guys released a book, I just bought it :)