Thread: IQ Tests

Originally Posted by Photolysis

Actually, this only tends to happen with more intelligent people

Originally Posted by Xei

once you reach a kind of 'critical mass' that allows you to think about your own thought processes"

Also, Dunning-Kruger is more about how good people are at rating their own performance. In the real world where most analysis is done by external events (e.g. examinations), people of all intelligences have a grasp of their objective performance. What I'm talking about is everybody being able to raise their performance significantly if they knew how and were willing to put in the effort. If you're below the level of intelligence required to even analyse your own learning, then this would require somebody constantly telling you how to do it, but for everybody else above that, once they understood what was required, I think they'd be a lot less pessimistic about their potential performance.