jeudi 29 septembre 2016

Is the Dunning Kruger effect present in children?

I was listening to Chris Hardwick's Nerdist Podcast and Neil Degrasse Tyson was the guest. They were discussing how some people can be too obstinate to teach. Neil suggested that this was something that people learned. That in schools children are prepared to learn and acceptant that other people know more than them but at some point some people become resistant to new ideas. Chris raised the Dunning Kruger effect and Neil seemed to not recognise the name but certainly agreed with the observation that people who know a little about a subject have an inflated idea of their own skills. He went on to say that this doesn't happen with children.

Obviously this is his anecdotal experience speaking rather than reference to actual attempts to replicate the Dunning Kruger experiment in differing age groups. Nonetheless my appetite was whet - it's plausible that the Dunning Kruger effect is learned but have any studies actually been done?

Google scholar throws up very limited results there's this sitting behind a paywall

http://ift.tt/2deOOfC

The abstract of which suggests little support for Neil's hypothesis at least among children with ADHD. However maybe that's only important because most children don't display this bias. It cites Dunning Kruger and it would be mildly interesting to find out but not £36 interesting.

Similarly http://ift.tt/2dePf9C


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