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Seeing many mentions of the Dunning-Kruger effect lately, in the context of people confidently making declarations or sharing 'advice' about #COVID2019uk, despite experts saying otherwise

Here's how D-K works (far as I know), and why I don't think it's the full story here

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The Dunning-Kruger effect stems from psychologists Dunning and Kruger hearing of a guy who committed an armed bank robbery in broad daylight, with no disguise. When (inevitably) caught, it was revealed that he'd rubbed his face in lemon juice
qz.com/986221/what-kn…

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Lemon juice is used to make invisible ink, you see
sciencekids.co.nz/experiments/in…
So, the guy thought he wouldn't show up on cameras, because he was 'invisible'. He was so confident in his conclusions that he committed major felonies, on camera, in front of witnesses

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