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		What’s Behind the Confidence of the Incompetent? (washingtonpost.com)
		1 point by litoE on Nov 1, 2021 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 2 comments

richardatlarge on Nov 1, 2021 | [–]

On the one hand we have Donald Trump, which proves the rule, or is the exception. Then we have HN: plentiful in confidence, not so high in incompetence.

gwern on Nov 1, 2021 | [–]

Reminder: Dunning-Kruger is partially to completely a statistical artifact, and an uninteresting consequence of measurement error.

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