> I think there's another factor at play related to the social implications of Dunning Kruger. To be specific: ones sense of ones own productivity and value to the company is not very well correlated to actual performance.
Dunning-Kroger is approximately “one’s sense of one’s own relative ability capability is tightly-correlated with actual relative ability, but shifted toward the 70th percentile from actual relative ability.”
The usual misunderstanding of DK is believing it to be a strong but inverse correlation between self-perceived ability and actual ability.
“Not very well correlated” not only isn't DK, its a fairly unusual misunderstandings of DK.
Dunning-Kroger is approximately “one’s sense of one’s own relative ability capability is tightly-correlated with actual relative ability, but shifted toward the 70th percentile from actual relative ability.”
The usual misunderstanding of DK is believing it to be a strong but inverse correlation between self-perceived ability and actual ability.
“Not very well correlated” not only isn't DK, its a fairly unusual misunderstandings of DK.