SIO276: Is the Dunning-Kruger Effect Real?
Serious Inquiries Only
Thomas Smith
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🗓️ 28 January 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
A recent article by Jonathan Jarry made a few waves on the internet recently, as it claims that the Dunning-Kruger effect might not actually be real! Official SIO Science-splainer Lindsey Osterman is on with a full breakdown! Is the effect real or is it just statistical noise? Tune in and find out!
Links: (Original paper) Kruger & Dunning (1999), (Review chapter) Dunning (2011), (Response to early statistical critiques) Kruger & Dunning (2002), (First Nuhfer paper): Nuhfer et al (2016), (Second Nuhfer paper): Nuhfer et al (2017)
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to? Serious inquiries only. |
| 0:08.0 | Hello and welcome to Serious Inquiries Only. This is episode 276. I'm Thomas and I'm joined today by Lindsay. How are you doing Lindsay? |
| 0:37.0 | Pretty good. Really good. Like as good as I'm not doing. |
| 0:44.0 | It sounds like it. You've had some rough times. |
| 0:47.0 | Stop the show. Gotta talk about the tornado hurricane thing that came through. |
| 0:53.0 | Unbelievable climate change event. California, the whole state, blue. Just one state. |
| 1:01.0 | Every object in the universe that was to the southeast of me is now to the northwest of me. |
| 1:07.0 | So if anyone's missing anything, keys, you know, any. If you can't find something, the wind blew it all the way to California. |
| 1:14.0 | It was unbelievable. Gail Force hurricane winds. Our fence got knocked over. Trees, power. |
| 1:21.0 | Quarter million people without power. And I'm hoping I get, I hope this recording goes okay. It's not a sure thing. |
| 1:28.0 | Power has been in and out. But so that's me. And then we think we're all, it's all resolved. We're good. |
| 1:34.0 | We recovered this morning, you know, and when you know it Phoebe has a fever, which means we can't both kids can't go to daycare for, I don't know, a calendar year or something until. |
| 1:44.0 | That sounds great. Yeah. Yeah. So that's my day. Anyway, I'm really excited to have you on though. |
| 1:49.0 | Because this is going to cheer me up. This is going to be a really cool episode because there was an article by Jonathan Jerry. |
| 1:57.0 | And he wrote about the fact that the Dunning Kruger effect might not be real. |
| 2:03.0 | And made, made some waves on the Twitter's on the interwebs. Super curious about this. So Lindsey was kind enough to check this out. |
| 2:11.0 | Apply her spider dick knowledge. Yeah. |
| 2:16.0 | Sorry. Yes. Spider dick knowledge really did play a large role in my ability to. |
| 2:21.0 | Yeah, just quick plug to the Twitch stream where we have been streaming here and there and talking about all kinds of cool reproductive facts about other species. |
| 2:30.0 | It's been a lot of fun. Be thankful that you're not a spider everybody. Be thankful that you're not a spider. |
| 2:36.0 | Well, specifically a male spider. I guess the women have it pretty good. Yeah, they seem, they seem to be doing okay. |
| 2:42.0 | They get a lot of snacks. Yeah. Feel a little bit peckish. They remedy that problem. |
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