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This is seems largely expected from Dunning and Kruger's paper.

The true Dunning-Kruger effect is not that low-skill individuals believe they're better than high-skill individuals but that low-skill individuals do not know what skill looks like. (Hence the title "Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments").

When you cannot evaluate the output of something then _any_ output looks good.




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