People who know less about politics are more confident about their political knowledge, according to research published in the scientific journal Political Psychology.
“The Dunning-Kruger effect holds that individuals with little knowledge about a topic will be, paradoxically, the most confident that they know a lot about the topic.
I follow a number of political psychologists who marveled at the social media pundit class’ seeming display of ‘Dunning-Krugerish tendencies’ in their bombastic coverage of the election.”.
The latter theory constitutes a central topic in my earlier research, and I was especially interested in whether the partisan mind is susceptible to overconfident self-appraisals of political knowledge.”.
“I think this has major implications for the breakdowns in political discourse we often observe in contemporary American democracy.”.
In the future, I think that we could learn many interesting things about political discourse and ‘political overconfidence’ by getting people into a laboratory setting.”.
The study was titled: “Partisanship, Political Knowledge, and the Dunning‐Kruger Effect“. »
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