How Education Often Leads to the Dunning Kruger Effect

Executive Summary

• One of the most significant issues is people from prestigious universities making inaccurate claims.
• This is part of the Dunning Kruger effect, which is very common to people with degrees from prestigious universities.

Introduction

Dunning Kruger is a massive problem in general, but it is particularly problematic with the people with educations from the most prestigious universities.

Tomas Sowell argues that graduates from prestigious institutions don’t feel as if they have to provide evidence. 

A degree from a prestigious university will often make the individual who has studied specific topics think that his expertise extends to areas they have not studied or studied very little.

Salespeople are also known as suffering from Dunning Kruger. 

A graph of the lifecycle of knowledge and confidence in one’s view. 

A humorous map of the spread of the Dunning Kruger Effect through the US. 

Conclusion

Those with prestigious degrees tend to overstate and overestimated their knowledge. An education from a prestigious institution tends to generalize their narrow expertise broadly. A second problem is an entitlement and a lack of interest in continued work. This is why, in our business, we try to stay away from those with prestigious degrees. Typically the individual with the prestigious degree will be far more apt to steal intellectual property or to engage in arrangements where they offer little but expect a large amount in return.

References

*http://thesciencepost.com/hiv-cure-within-sight/

*http://thesciencepost.com/hospital-to-replace-doctors-with-parents-who-have-done-their-research/

*http://thesciencepost.com/outbreak-of-dunning-kruger-disease-spreads-to-all-50-states/

*http://thesciencepost.com/study-70-of-facebook-commenters-only-read-the-headline/