Many of us are definitely under the impression that we're smarter than we actually are and an interesting question would be to ask how and in what way it's an impediment to true knowledge. — TheMadFool
Perhaps I am wrong, but it seems to me truly intelligent people know they are smart and know they are smart than most other people, but this isn't their focus when engaged with learning, problem solving. Their focus is on what they do not know and what they need to know. When waxing comparative, it would be odd for them not to realize they are much smarter than most other people.Everyone always forgets about the other half of Dunning-Kruger: people who truly know a significant amount about something, enough to know how much they don’t know, tend to think lowly of their knowledge, even though it’s much greater than others. — Pfhorrest
The authors' findings refute the claim that people are generally prone to greatly inflated views of their abilities, but support two other tenets of the original Kruger and Dunning research: (1) that self-assessment skill can be learned, and (2) that experts usually self-assess more accurately than do novices. The researchers noted that metacognitive self-assessment skill is of great value, and that it can be taught together with disciplinary content in college courses.[16][17]
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