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> the meme is not that actual ability and self-assessment are negatively correlated

I don't think there's a single DK meme, but I do think that this is a common DK meme.

Somewhat-serious suggestion: maybe people who actually understand DK, have a tendency to underestimate how well they understand it relative to everyone else, and so assume that everyone else understands it about as well as they do.

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I've definitely heard the negatively correlated variant of the meme. I'm not sure it's the predominant one or always explicitly expressed, but it's out there.

I think it's hilarious that everyone piling onto this guy from being "so wrong" about Dunning-Kruger have a huge blind spot. Maybe they don't understand it as well as they think so, either. If it's possible that he's super-wrong, it's also entirely possible that they are too.

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