How much time should you spend optimizing any particular process you might engage in? Even assuming that you’re optimizing for a value of overriding importance or value there is only a limited amount of time available. If all available time is spent optimizing clearly that would be suboptimal since there...
The Dunning-Kruger effect is, famously, a purported cognitive bias that leads people to overestimate their competence about something they know little about while, in contrast, increased competence leads to a more accurate self-assessment of an individual’s performance. I would like to propose the existence of the Dunning-Dunning-Kruger-Kruger effect, a cognitive...
How much time should you spend optimizing any particular process you might engage in? Even assuming that you’re optimizing for a value of overriding importance or value there is only a limited amount of time available.
If all available time is spent optimizing clearly that would be suboptimal since there would be no time left to actually engage in any particular process pursuant to what we value. So the optimal level of optimization is always suboptimal.
However, that might seem to be trivial and only operant at some kind of asympoptic limit we need not worry about in our lives. The problem, though, is deeper. That the optimal level of optimization is suboptimal is... (read more)
The Dunning-Kruger effect is, famously, a purported cognitive bias that leads people to overestimate their competence about something they know little about while, in contrast, increased competence leads to a more accurate self-assessment of an individual’s performance.
I would like to propose the existence of the Dunning-Dunning-Kruger-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias that leads people to overestimate the likely truth of something if it called a cognitive bias and, more and most importantly, if the cognitive bias that is being granted credence is one that should lead us to grant less credence to it if it is an actual cognitive bias.
As applied to its namesake, an individual who believes in the Dunning-Kruger effect but lacks sufficient competence in psychology... (read more)
I used to consume thousands of calories of pure sugar (mixed with water) for long gym days. I did this in line with recommendations for athletes that simpler carbohydrates are better for endurance activity for their ease of digestion and because the calories were used to fuel exercise as opposed to being converted to excess adipose tissue. Cake is typically 'dirty' in my opinion because regular consumption of cake tends to not be correlated with a healthful diet and because the calories that cake takes up can push out more nutrient-dense foods, but cake, and most all 'foods,' I don't think are bad per se but only insofar as they contribute to... (read more)
Timely Study Drop: (https://apo.org.au/node/325043)
Ohh maybe that's true if the Dunning-Krueger effect is true! I'm not confident that it is. That's as a result of me not having looked into the evidence for it, though, so I might need to update my view upon further reading.
If we should give credence though to some claim a witness, expert or otherwise, is making, I do wonder: if the Dunning-Krueger effect is true what the foundation for our assessment of the credibility of their witness testimony would be. I dont think we should simply believe purported experts on the basis of credentials, degrees, published papers, or any other marker of 'expertness,'; rather, belief should be granted on the basis... (read more)