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Dunning-Kruger

Replication and analysis of the Dunning-Kruger effect

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
1GitHub stars
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Replication and analysis of the Dunning-Kruger effect

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

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Observed mentions: 2026-08-03 20:55:21 UTC to 2026-08-04 10:37:22 UTC.

012026-08-03 20:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-03 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 3, 20:002026-08-03 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-03 22:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-03 22:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-03 23:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-03 23:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-04 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-04 01:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-04 02:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-04 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 4, 03:002026-08-04 04:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-04 05:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-04 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-04 07:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-04 08:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-04 09:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-08-04 10:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-04 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsAug 4, 10:00

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Aug 3, 20:002026-08-03 20:00:00 UTC2026-08-03 21:00:00 UTC101
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Aug 4, 10:002026-08-04 10:00:00 UTC2026-08-04 11:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I mean in their code the simulation is incorrect. Someone found the source: https://github.com/pem725/Dunning-Kruger They're sampling slope and bias for the line from U[0,1] and U[0,100], the expected values of which will be 0.5 and 50. That's why they get what they get. They say that randomness is any positively sloped line with any positive bias. So they assume dependence, just a very high variance of it. It's incorrect as they miss the negative half of the parameters - it would then correctly yield zeroes, for the presumed independence.
In The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)

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