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What psycholgy research finding hit a little too close for you? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 8 months ago by multicolorKnight to c/asklemmy

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For me it's: "Chronic cannabis use during adolescence impairs emotional development in adulthood" "Over achievement in crisis situations is an indicator of ADHD" Both of which provoke "Hmm, ya probably, and fuck you too"

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[–] jordanlund 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Dunning Kruger.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

There may be a great many things that I'm totally incompetent at and I just have no clue how bad I am.

[–] Tacoma 3 points 8 months ago

I might have good news for you, there are people who claim that the effect is not because stupid people overestimate their abilities (and vice versa) but that it is just a statistical artefact. I'm not competent enough to tell if that's correct, since I didn't understand the argument completely, but if you want to build your own opinion, you can find many articles about it.

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