The Atir Rosenzweig-Dunning effect was defined from the names of researchers Stav Atir, Emily Rosenzweig and David Dunning; this particular phenomenon occurs when a person, as an expert on a particular topic, believes that she really lacks knowledge.
This effect was determined through an experience that was supported by people who considered themselves specialists in different subjects, the more knowledge these people thought they had, the more likely they were to claim to know fictional terms, invented by researchers.
- The fundamentals of this curious effect assume that as we learn and increase our knowledge.
- Awareness of what we do not know begins to become increasingly blurred.
Therefore, having extensive experience in a given area can increase our self-confidence to the point where we think we know everything about the subject at hand.
The study of these researchers also provided another interesting discovery related to another effect, called Dunning-Kruger, which we will discuss later.
Compared to studies of this other phenomenon, individuals treated with respect to the Atir-Rosenzweig-Dunning effect were very likely to claim to know events or ideas that were not true.
However, others with less knowledge in a given field were more likely to doubt these ideas or events presented as true, recognizing their lack of experience and admitting ignorance.
Of respondents, about 92% said they released the fictional terms one way or another. Focusing on the topic in the field of biology, experts claimed to be familiar with non-existent concepts, such as Metatoxins, “Retroplex”. ‘biosexual’.
Decidedly, the findings of this research have determined that sometimes having extensive experience in a field can lead to more “blindness” than ignorance itself.
The Dunning-Kruger effect was determined by pre-mentioned studies to discover the Atir-Rosenzweig-Dunning effect, another phenomenon that was presented in people who claimed to be experts in a subject without real knowledge of it.
In this sense, this approach not only leads a person to talk about a topic they don’t know about, but it can also stimulate the possibility that they are trying to convince others of something they find logical or more likely to see. , when you don’t know if it’s true or not.
Thus, the Dunning-Kruger effect is related to the Atir-Rosenzweig-Dunning effect. In this sense, are the two effects consistent with such a particular and fascinating shape? For good and evil our mind must work.
As you can see, these two effects have a very close relationship with something that has become popular in popular language lately, in which politics has become a television program, we are talking about these people who develop theories based on very poor or sessed knowledge.
This idea is closely associated with the figure of the parent, identified as that person in the family who always tries to teach others, defending his beliefs as universal.
Compared to the effects discussed here, the stereotype of parents would include the attitude we have described, so their behavior could be partly due to the Dunning-Kruger effect.
However, since this idea is well founded on the behavior of declaring what is not known, it is also related to the Atir Rosenzweig Dunning effect.
In any case, it is very irritating behavior, especially when these people try to impose their ideas on issues that, however committed and controversial, can raise morale, such as politics or feminism.
Therefore, let us think that recognizing our lack of knowledge can be a much smarter way to demonstrate, from our limited point of view, the knowledge we have.
This will allow us to learn and have much more interesting debates, as well as not to get into topics that, however logical they may seem, cannot be supported.