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    Basically, don’t make definitive statements about things you don’t understand. Just try to be as helpful as you can with the knowledge you have.

    It also helps if you’re not struggling with a narcissistic personality disorder that causes you to make definitive statements in the first place.

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    I’m a lifetime fellow of the impostor club. At times I believe it’s the dunning-kreuger club, and I just keep failing upwards.

    Sure, the downtime I accidentally caused was only 30 minutes. BUT IT WAS FUCKING DOWNTIME. Zero is the only acceptable duration.

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    The biggest misunderstanding of the Dunning Kruger effect is the idea that it only applies to certain people. It applies to everyone, we all overestimate our expertise at times. It’s a cognitive bias that we all have to knowingly watch out for, not something that indicates stupidity.

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      The issue is yeah there’s one graph that’s not great but there’s also decades of research following the original publication that is not addressed.

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    Actually, I do know. I’ve spent 30 minutes researching it the other day, so I actually know a ton about it.

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    I much prefer Dunning-Notice-Krueger. I get a credit collections notice delivered by a guy with a metal-clawed glove. Now with Fedora!