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> "below average people think they're above average, and above average people assume they're below average"

There’s no way to know if you’re wrong, but when I see it used it seems to be pointing out - “some (not all) under qualified people tend to defer to their own beliefs rather than the views/statements from experts, even when that is demonstrably silly.”

^ Referring to the pop-sci interpretation, not in disagreement with the general point.



Which also has nothing at all to do with this study by Dunning and Kruger. So you agree with the general point of parent.


Yes. Just clarifying a small disagreement about the pop-sci interpretation of the phrase.




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