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Camillo
on Nov 10, 2017
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Show HN: Impostor Roster – Suffering from Impostor...
I suspect that "impostor syndrome" is just what many people feel when the comforting illusion of the Dunning-Kruger effect starts to fall apart.
icebraining
on Nov 10, 2017
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Actually, the tests made by Dunning and Kruger that led to the coining of that "effect" also showed that competent people tended to rank themselves below their actual level - exactly as described by the Impostor Syndrome.
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