Dunning-Kruger Effect: When your confidence<\/strong> in a subject books an Emirates First flight to the moon, but your competence<\/strong> in that subject gets you a one way ticket to Lubbock, TX on Southwest. Manufactured spenders and churners are an astute, quick-thinking bunch, at least on average. They’re also happy to give advice and help others out of a tricky situation. Put those traits together though, and your average personality in the hobby has a tendency to speak with more bravado than is strictly warranted. That is, a lot of us are walking Dunning-Kruger Effect bots. Need a concrete example? You’re reading an article from a guy who’s formal psychological training consists of an expired library card. A few more examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are of course longer examples too, but you’ll have to find those on another blog that has at least four pop-up ads and two referral links for the Chase Sapphire Preferred\u2122\u00a9\u00ae\u03a9\u00b5\u00ae card.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s end with a conversation I overheard:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Everyone<\/em> else<\/em>: “Ok poindexter, so what?” Have a nice weekend friends!<\/p>\n\n\n The guy who already did the thing seven times this month’s home plumbing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Introduction Let’s chat about the Dunning-Kruger Effect. But, before we get in too deep though, I’ll remind anyone who doesn’t remember immediately what exactly that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wisdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13255"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13260,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13255\/revisions\/13260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
– Remedial Psychology by non-Psychologist MEAB, Volume II<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nPractice<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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MEAB<\/em>: “Listen to everyone in the hobby, we’re a smart bunch. But, apply appropriate skepticism.”
Everyone<\/em> else<\/em>: “Boring! Where are the free flights and stuff?”
MEAB<\/em>: “…”<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/milesearnandburn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/how-bad-is-this-v0-7it6ukj3pd4a1.jpg-1024x768.webp\")
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