There is a growing awareness of the Dunning-Kruger effect. I’m not sure how common place this has become in popular culture. But in essence, it suggests that humans reliably overestimate their competence and cognitive ability and assume it to be greater than it is. Those individuals who are uninformed may be quite vocal and feel they are correct. However, this same group may also lack the insight to reflect, recognise their own incompetence, and grow from it. To some extent, we all are victims of this phenomenon at some point in our lives.
This phenomenon is closely related to the Freddy Krueger effect. The Freddy Krueger effect is when someone has a strong opinion but is of low competence; he or she may have heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect, but clearly does not comprehend it, nor are they capable of seeing how it applies to themselves. They tend to be vocal, cutting and monstrous in their dream-world, online and in social media. They reliably act as trolls. However, if you take them from the virtual world and bring them to the real world, they demonstrate human vulnerability and emotional instability. In the real world, they often are incompetent and may actually be suffering from a mental illness. More common in baby-boomers, those demonstrating the Freddy Krueger effect were popular in the 1980’s but have since lost relevance. In a stunning display of malapropism, they often accuse others of suffering from the Freddy Krueger effect, demonstrating simultaneously both the Dunning-Kruger and Freddy Krueger effects.
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