dunning-kruger

Hacker News is harsh to people suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect, and doubly harsh for those critical of SpaceX.

There's also the Dunning-Kruger effect: the better you get at something, the worse you feel you are at it...

I imagine the explanation must include large doses of both ignorance and hubris - the Dunning-Kruger effect with teeth.

I've only heard about the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon recently, but I'm an expert on the Dunning-Kruger effect.

You might do well to familiarize yourself with the Dunning-Kruger effect.

I suppose the Dunning-Kruger effect kept him from realizing how bad his code was.

The Dunning-Kruger effect is grossly overestimating one's own skill.

You may just be suffering from Dunning-Kruger effect.

We're a bunch of idiot savants with Dunning-Kruger?

> Dunning-kruger in effect Are you talking about Soylent or people criticising Soylent?

I genuinely have no idea how you ended up thinking that's what I said, but I'm starting to understand why you're in favour of the loud-mouthed Dunning-Kruger victims.

> The [Dunning-Kruger effect] doesn't apply But how could you tell?

Not to pick on the wishful gullibility of the masses to get entranced by well-made ad, or individual entrepreuners with severe Dunning-Kruger naivete, but perhaps "crowdsourced" investors should at least be backed by a reputable subject in the field and a background check.

(Example: saying that type safety prevents you from trying to "multiply seven by cats".) It seems like a pretty Dunning-Kruger thing: the less broad your knowledge is, the more justified you feel in writing an introductory text to the field.