How can people avoid the Dunning-Kruger effect?
That is, believing they are competent when in fact, they are not very competent, or not at all competent. This is a follow-up question to What does it feel like to be stupid?.
3 Answers
Daniel Lemire, Computer scientist and Open Scholar.
3 votes by Seb Paquet, Anon User, and Keiko Itaya
Run experiments. This is the single most powerful tool to determine whether you understand something: can you predict the output given the inputs.
Flemming Funch, Creative systems thinker
4 votes by Robin Green, Seb Paquet, Anon User, and Mark Roddy
Xianhang Zhang, I understand people pretty well.
1 vote by Anon User
This is what I call the ego dilemma: http://blog.figuringshito
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