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  • RustyEarthfire@lemmy.worldtoScience Memes@mander.xyzJust So
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    21 days ago

    The problem is there isn’t anything “useful” for understanding humans [in evolutionary psychology]. Yes we can come up with plausible evolutionary justifications for behavior like cooperation, but they are basically untestable and useless for predictions.

    Edited to clarify I mean specifically evolutionary psychology.








  • Based on what I know of Imposter Syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect, it seems you’re at your most competent when you feel like you’re at your least.

    I’m not sure how you come to that conclusion, even with the internet meme version of the Dunning-Kruger effect. In the meme version, the incompetent think they are most competent, but I don’t think it follows that the most competent would think they are least competent.

    I would summarize the actual Dunning-Kruger effect as: people tend to think they are a bit above average, and actual skill factors in only slightly. Worth emphasizing that these results are over groups of people, and individuals have extreme variation.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

    Dunning-Kruger percentile chart

    Dunning-Kruger raw score chart


  • Lemmy without politics is kinda a ghost board. There is maybe 3 or 4 new posts a day.

    I think your approach of blocking any user who posts about politics is eliminating the most prolific posters when 95% of their stuff is non-political. This is not to say your approach is bad, just that it doesn’t actually represent “Lemmy without politics”.