The best way to differentiate DK from autocorrection is motive. Low performance people will focus on motives that reinforce the perception of their competence, for example preferring code style over code delivery because while both may be arguably important one requires less effort and risk to attain.
There is research to qualify this out of Stanford. People will shift motives to attain complements and the types of compliments received will dictate the challenges they are willing to accept. When a compliment is specific to an action and measurable people will strive for continuously more challenging tasks to continually receive specific compliments. When compliments are generic and directed to the person they will tend to preference progressively less challenging tasks so that they continue to shine relative to the attempted effort. The differences in behavior produces a natural Dunning-Kruger effect wherein people seeking less qualified activities are more likely to over estimate their potential and degree of success.
This also statistically verified in research that correlates predictions to confidence. The more confidence a person is in their predictions, such as political talk radio hosts, the less accurate their predictions tend to be.
There is research to qualify this out of Stanford. People will shift motives to attain complements and the types of compliments received will dictate the challenges they are willing to accept. When a compliment is specific to an action and measurable people will strive for continuously more challenging tasks to continually receive specific compliments. When compliments are generic and directed to the person they will tend to preference progressively less challenging tasks so that they continue to shine relative to the attempted effort. The differences in behavior produces a natural Dunning-Kruger effect wherein people seeking less qualified activities are more likely to over estimate their potential and degree of success.
This also statistically verified in research that correlates predictions to confidence. The more confidence a person is in their predictions, such as political talk radio hosts, the less accurate their predictions tend to be.