(February 5, 2016 at 10:07 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: Anyone else noticed this ongoing trend of individuals who come here with their pet hypotheses about things, then when every single person on here (many of whom have advanced degrees in difficult subjects, like engineering, science, and/or medicine) dissects the ridiculous assertions being made, they will without fail respond with some version of:
"None of you understand what I'm talking about. I'm operating on a higher level."
Is it Dunning-Kruger Syndrome?
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is, while the highly skilled underrate their own abilities, suffering from illusory inferiority. You don't even know enough to realize just how little you know.
Yes indeed, I think we've seen quite a few examples of this effect. Often coupled with Stockholm Syndrome.
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