Interestingly, almost 80 % of participants rated their intelligence as above average, with males reporting significantly higher self-estimated intelligence scores than females. However, we found no significant relationship between self-estimated intelligence and ICAR-16 scores. These results suggest that there may be a discrepancy between our perceived intelligence and our actual cognitive ability, or that we may have a fallacious understanding of our intelligence levels.
This is reminiscent of social media’s favourite, the Dunning-Kruger effect, where in order to assess the level of an attribute that applies to them, an individual must use that attribute itself.
This suggests that there’s no relationship between self-assessed and measured intelligence at all as opposed to Dunning-Kruger’s exaggerated gap at the low end.
I wonder why Dunning-Kruger doesn’t seem to apply here.
I wonder why Dunning-Kruger doesn’t seem to apply here.
because dunning-kruger is something else than you think - it has nothing to do with intelligence:
In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task.
Yes, I’ve read the Wikipedia article. That sentence is a little misleading, as the original study was arguably about both.
The initial study by David Dunning and Justin Kruger examined the performance and self-assessment of undergraduate students in the fields of inductive, deductive, and abductive logical reasoning, English grammar, and appreciation of humor.
Edit: …with the reasoning tests being a crude proxy for intelligence.
Note that I was careful not to mention intelligence in my original post either.
The study needs to be reproduced in different regions and countries to eliminate culture biases.
I also wonder how much of an influence it has if you know the results of an IQ test done on you for a mental health diagnosis.
Would such an assessment coincide with this test enough that it wouldn’t count you as falsely guessing your intelligence?
