“The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which an unskilled person makes poor decisions and reaches erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to realize their mistakes.”
You would normally believe that this effect would minimize the ability of society to live a fulfilled, and happy life where people do not learn as much as they can, and they try their best to make society as efficient as possible. Contrary to popular belief, this effect is necessary because if the majority of the people actually had this ability to realize their mistakes, then they wouldn`t feel this illusory superiority, aend therefore the world would be even more full of violence and tragedy against those who are skilled and promising because of the reinforced feeling of enviousness coming from the intellectually inferior. But you can also see it in another way, humbleness comes from the ability of recognizing the things you are limited to, and therefore if people could recognize their mistakes, they would become more humble, and they would try to learn more from it leading to a more educated world. I guess it just depends on how people would react to the realization of their mistakes. So, how do people react? The people that constantly feel more certainty would be more active, taking them to learn more from their errors or to be more violent towards the skilled, therefore being more aggressive. On the other hand, the one’s with more doubt and indecision would take it more passively, not learning much from their mistakes, but at the same time not being violent towards the more intelligent men. This shows that the unrealistic optimal solution for society would be to maximize the amount of skilled and active citizens, and minimize the amount of active and unskilled people in order to reduce violence and maximize society’s intellectual capability. Although we don`t live in a perfect society, the passive people exist in order to balance out the clash between the two extremes of the actives, otherwise we would live in a less civilized and more primordial society. What category would you like to be part of? When you choose one, how are you going to brand yourself regarding those characteristics that these type of people hold and their role in society? Remember: The more you learn, the more you learn how little you know. -Socrates.
Being humble and understanding your binding rationalism is important in order to be successfully socially accepted and for branding yourself.
