Am I ignorant of my own ignorance?

Stuart Vyse writes,

Ignorant of your own ignorance. Frequently applied in a political context, the Dunning-Kruger (DK) effect has rapidly become a famous psychological concept. It describes a kind of double-whammy. 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. 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. People who were unskilled or unschooled in a subject also suffered from a “metacognitive deficit.” Metacognition is thinking about your own thought processes, and it is separate from the basic thinking you do while solving a problem or taking a test. According to Dunning and Kruger, people who are ill informed often don’t know it.

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