Have you ever heard of the #DunningKruger effect?
Generally, it is understood as
"a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence" [wikipedia]
This actually isn't, what the original study said, but it is still what most people think, when they hear the term.
However, in my personal experience (anecdotal evidence) I find the most extreme levels of unfounded overconfidence about one's expertise concerning almost every aspect of life concentrated
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in representatives of certain professions:
* teachers
* economists
* programmers ("software engineers" as they call themselves)
* physicists
* mathematicians
* lawyers
* MDs
* politicians
What do you think?
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@mina@berlin.social I’d like to have some more of this. I’m suffering the #ImpostorSyndome.
But I’m also not mentioned in the list.
I never really understood the term "impostor syndrome", especially when applied to oneself, but I will have to re-read this topic.