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Yasir Qadhi

Islam and the Dunning-Kruger Effect

Yasir Qadhi

Muslim Central

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Islam

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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the world.

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What are we going to do?

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Modern psychologists have documented a phenomenon that is common in all disciplines and

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all fields.

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It is a human problem.

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It is called a cognitive bias and that is something known as the Dunning Kruger effect.

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Google it after today.

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Dunning Kruger effects.

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It is a very interesting phenomenon.

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So what this phenomenon indicates and this is across all disciplines is the following.

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When you don't know something, you know you don't know it and you give weight to the people

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of authority in that field.

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But an interesting phenomenon is observed.

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The minute you start learning and you master level one, you get an over boost of confidence

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and you think you know exponentially more than you actually do.

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And you have a sense of such confidence that you feel more qualified than majority or

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many experts.

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And it takes some serious mistakes to cause you to come crashing down and then slowly

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you build another.

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So the Dunning Kruger effect has actually been charted.

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