top performers seem to gave quite accurate estimate in absolute score (≈1 point less than real, out of 45 points)
skills to recognize own incompetence are the same skills required to be competent
Kruger & Dunning, 1999, Study 4
students were given test
then half of students received a mini-lecture on how to solve this kind of problem
then they were given their original test to look over
participants who received the mini-lecture provided more accurate ratings and even lowered their confidence in their logical reasoning ability
(but that is after-the-fact assessment of previous performance)
top performers accurately assess themselves in absolute terms, but overestimate others
“one can disabuse top performers by showing them the responses of other people”
people’s estimate comes top-down from their preexisting belief of their skill at that particular area
when people were given test in abstract reasoning ability they overestimated themselves, but when taking a computer programming skills test they underestimated themselves. But that was actually the same test. (Ehrlinger & Dunning, 2003, How chronic self-views influence (and potentially mislead) estimates of performance)
(Q: did they estimate themselves before or after taking the test?)
