Dunning-Kruger Effect

[Dave Osborne]

Following an interesting chain of hyperlinks, I arrived here:

recognise themself?

;-) DaveyOz

[Andy Burns]

[fred]

Anyone with any sense who is asked about it in court ;-)

Common sense also applies when asked what speed their car/m'bike etc will is capable of.

[Tim Watts]

I thought my siliconing abilities were only passable until I saw the Premier Inn bathrooms :)

[Huge]

Ditto tiling.

[ARWadsworth]

[robgraham]

Oh - yes. The tiling in the gents loo in a small hotel we were staying in very recently could only have been done by someone who had absolutely no concept of how to do the task in a manner which didn't catch the eye as being a total botch - was he an amateur (the hotel's owner moonlighting ?) or the builder's electrician who had to step in because there was no one else available?

[pete]

I think that person lived in my house before I bought it. Was the C/H bodged so that all the pipes rubbed against the joists and none of the radiators were parallel to the walls, too?

[Derek Geldard]

Quote someone in the last government who were past masters at D-K .

"Every school will be excellent".

Derek

[Chris J Dixon]

Now you are into the Lake Wobegon effect.

"all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average,"

Chris

[Huge]

Coming from a household not infected with offspring, it's interesting how *all* of our friend's children are above average, according to their parents. They all walk sooner, talk sooner than then their peers. I wonder how that walks?

[ARWadsworth]

And have you ever asked a mother how old her child is? They never answer properly. It is alway s/he will be x years old in y months time!

[news10paul]

Easy: they mention only the things their child is better than average at, and make no comment on the rest. Most likely not as part of some ongoing propaganda campaign, but just because they haven't particularly noticed.

#Paul

[The Medway Handyman]

Works with grandchildren as well. My granddaughter is definately above average - and thats a completely unbiased opinion..... :-)

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Dave Osborne saying something like:

[pete]

And we're banning the teaching of statistics in schools (it makes our policies so much easier to sell! )

[S Viemeister]

Obviously you have genetically superior friends...

[Huge]

Oh, indeed.

But I suspect in reality the data sources may be biased. :o)

[Jim K]

how do you do it then?

Jim K

[S Viemeister]

Well, _my_ children are absolutely brilliant (good-looking, too) and I couldn't possibly be biased! :)