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Is anyone else caught in a weird Venn diagram of Imposter Syndrome and furious indignation and disdain for actual imposters in your field? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Context: I'm a second year medical student and currently residing in the deepest pit in the valley of the Dunning-Kruger graph, but am still constantly frustrated and infuriated with the push for introducing AI for quasi-self-diagnosis and loosening restrictions on inadequately educated providers like NP's from the for-profit "schools".

So, anyone else in a similar spot where you think you're kinda dumb, but you know you're still smarter than robots and people at the peak of the Dunning-Kruger graph in your field?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think you answered your own question by bringing up Dunning Krueger. It's perfectly coherent to at the same time recognize one's own flaws and also recognize that other people may be too dumb to do the same. That being said, it probably isn't healthy. A better way to look at it might be to recognize that the level of expertise you are expecting of yourself isn't necessarily what others are expecting of you. At least not at all times.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I would agree with this. Interesting way of looking at it.

But just an fyi, dunning Krueger effect has been disproven as a theory because the correlation the studies purported to find were only the same variables correlated with themselves.

Dunning Krueger is a flawed theory and the effect is not real. But i hear you, it definitely feels true a lot of times.

In my field, over confident people are unsafe.

If someone uses confidence to show their competency, I have a tendency to back off and question their actual abilities until I see it in action. If someone I am working with is unaware of their own experience someone on my team could die.

Edit: obviously in the medical field if y’all don’t know what you’re doing a patient could have a bad outcome or even die as well.