Are we as intelligent as we think? (www.sciencedirect.com)

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Interestingly, almost 80 % of participants rated their intelligence as above average, with males reporting significantly higher self-estimated intelligence scores than females. However, we found no significant relationship between self-estimated intelligence and ICAR-16 scores. These results suggest that there may be a discrepancy between our perceived intelligence and our actual cognitive ability, or that we may have a fallacious understanding of our intelligence levels.

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[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder why Dunning-Kruger doesn’t seem to apply here.

because dunning-kruger is something else than you think.

The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias[2] whereby people with low ability, expertise, or experience regarding a type of task or area of knowledge tend to overestimate their ability or knowledge. Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills. **In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task. **

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, I've read the Wikipedia article. That sentence is a little misleading, as the original study was arguably about both.

The initial study by David Dunning and Justin Kruger examined the performance and self-assessment of undergraduate students in the fields of inductive, deductive, and abductive logical reasoning, English grammar, and appreciation of humor.

Edit: ...with the reasoning tests being a crude proxy for intelligence.

Note that I was careful not to mention intelligence in my original post either.