![]() In a world where the views of experts are regularly dismissed (Nichols 2017) and many internet users think they know more about medicine and foreign policy than people who actually studied those subjects in school, the DK effect seems to explain a lot. If you suffer from the DK effect, you know very little about a subject-which is bad enough-but you also have the false impression that you know considerably more than you do. Frequently applied in a political context, the Dunning-Kruger (DK) effect has rapidly become a famous psychological concept. It's not totally wrong, but it's trying to represent a concept in a way that doesn't really fit what it's trying to communicate and it accidentally implies some things that aren't true.Ignorant of your own ignorance. The original graph is essentially if you took that last sentence, removed it from its original context entirely, and tried to represent that conclusion as a new line graph for no real reason. Both of these lines skew upwards linearly, but the disparity between the two at each level of expertise varies, with the lowest expertise subjects vastly overestimating their results and those with more expertise being much more conservative in their estimates. ![]() "How much they actually know", with two lines that represent how they actually perform and how the subject thinks they performed before the results are shared. Someone else in here posted a YouTube video that breaks it down better than I can, but the Dunning-Kruger effect can be best illustrated by a line graph where the two axes are "How well someone performs" vs. ![]() The source doesn't refute it per se, but reading it makes it clear that the graph OP is responding to doesn't really represent what the source is saying. Moderators are not experts in everything so we do not always moderate for accuracy, though there are often one or two people wearing their smarty pants in the comments. Lastly, always check the comments for guides. If you do we may remove some of your posts in the interest of keeping a wide array of topics. Please help keep the sub diverse by not saturating the sub with one topic. Many of you might have whole folders of guides, but they are all on similar topics. If you know the source of your guide, post it in the comments so people can know the true heros! ![]() This includes guides describing the creation of dangerous items/materials and/or guides that are designed with the purpose to harm or hurt others do not fit the culture of this sub and will be removed. Guides depicting harmful, dangerous, or destructive content will be removed. Guides must use either Reddit or Imgur as an image hostĥ. Nonserious/Comedy Guides Will Be Removed (better suited for /r/shittycoolguides)Ĥ. Please only post direct links to images of type. If you have questions message us, if you think a post is not a good one downvote it.ġ. These are the considerations the mod team use when they feel it is appropriate to remove posts. Sometimes infographics can masquerade as how-to guides. If your guide is more of a visual essay than a structured table or list, then chances are that is an infographic. Flow charts and step-by-step guides are considered guides, so are visual references that line up different types of something next to one another other.Īn infographic is more educational in layout and content, finding something specific on an infographic is not as easy because it is designed to inform through more narrative structures. Guides are typically laid out in a grid configuration of some sort or sectioned into multiple tables by a category or step of a process. On top of that not all guides are created equal, many technically qualify as guides, but lack substance. If someone has to visually bop around your guide to find what they are looking for, the guide does not pass the layout test. The layout or structure of a guide must be that so, when someone is trying to find/reference information from the guide, they can do so logically or simply. It takes both content and layout to make something a guide. Guides are reference materials, how-tos, and/or comparison tables.
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