People tend to project themselves as “better-than-average”. Those who are incompetent overestimate themselves, while those who are competent underestimate their ability. This phenomena is also known as dunning-kruger effect, which is one of cognitive biases.
Summarization
Previous researches mainly focused on ‘incompetence leads to metacognitive deficiencies’, while this research, which Dunning and Kruger published, targeted on ‘metacognitive deficiencies leads to inflated self-assessments.’ The following is how each groups behaved.
Bottom Quartile
- Overestimate their ability
- above-average effect
- Metacognitive skills deficiency
- miscalibration stems from an error about
the self
Top Quartile
- Underestimate their ability
- fake-consensus effect
- Social Sompatision Information leads to improvement of accracy of their self-appraisals
- miscalibration stems from an error about
others
What I learn from this paper
When I first learn something, I felt that I’m really good at it. However as I learn more and more, it turns out that I’m not actually good. Especially while I was learning about python syntax and programming, I had such thoughts. In any areas, if you’re a NEWBIE, BE MODEST. There are many great people around and you can learn from them. To much self-esteem from the beginning, ruins your advantage of learning knowledge from others. On the other hand, if you have enough experience, you may be better than you thought! So, if you’re in slumps, we confident yourself and move on. You are already better than you think.
Therefore, | Be a student, not a teacher.