Dunning-Kruger Syndrome, which can be translated as "ignorant courage" in Turkish, is the "tendency to bias in perception" defined by two scientists from Cornell University. Justin Kruger and David Dunning, who set out with the theory "Ignorance, unlike true knowledge, increases the individual's self-confidence", which they put forward in 1999, received the Ig Nobel(*) Psychology Prize for their work on this subject in 2000.
Kruger and Dunning reached the following assumptions as a result of their various applications in the physiological and mental fields:
- Unqualified people cannot realize how unqualified they are.
- Unqualified people tend to exaggerate their qualities.
- Unqualified people are incapable of seeing and understanding the qualities of truly qualified people.
- If their qualifications are increased with a certain education, the same unqualified people begin to realize their lack of qualifications.
What triggered the investigation was a thief who tried to become invisible by applying lemon to his face:
In 1995, a 44-year-old person named McArthur Wheeler claimed that he had deep knowledge about the chemistry of lemon juice, which he described as "strange". He doused himself in lemon juice and tried to rob two banks in a row. According to his claim, thanks to the "mysterious" chemistry that allows lemon juice to be used to write invisible writings, he would also make himself "invisible" and the cameras in the bank would not be able to record him. He managed to rob banks, but of course the cameras recorded it without any problems and the police easily caught Wheeler on the same day.
Kruger and Dunning, who started to investigate this incident,
In the article they wrote on the subject, Kruger and Dunning stated the following:
“The intemperance of the ignorant/incompetent/incompetent stems from the errors in their perception of themselves; "The intemperance of highly knowledgeable, skillful and talented people stems from errors in their perception of other people."
After this research, research conducted by other experts in 2003, 2006 and 2008 confirmed this effect and even deeper details about the ignorant courage were revealed. In 2008, Joyce Ehrlinger noticed this effect. He conducted research trying to attribute it to different reasons. In other words, he tried to refute the effect by targeting it directly, but the result of his research was exactly consistent with the conclusion reached by Dunning and Kruger.
The following statement made by Darwin in the 19th century supports this study centuries ago: “Ignorance, more often It creates trust, not knowledge; Those who persistently claim that this or that problem cannot be solved with science are not those who know a lot, but those who know little." It comes from the word. Based on the similarity of the name of this word with the Nobel Prizes, the awards were called Ig Nobel Prizes, again as a satire. In the beginning, awards were given for absurd and meaningless work that could not be repeated and should not be repeated if possible, or for the purpose of mocking them. Over time, as the popularity of the Ig Nobel Prizes in the media increased, this perspective partially changed and in recent years began to shift towards scientific research in the fields of science, technology and medicine that first make people laugh and then think. However, in addition to interesting scientific studies, awards for criticism or ridicule are still given - although their numbers have decreased.
As Mark Twain said; Never argue with a fool, he will drag you down to his level and then beat you with his experience.
We must stop commenting on subjects we do not know and learn to say "I don't know", as our ancestors said: "It is not a shame not to know, it is a shame not to learn!"
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