The Dunning-Kruger finding itself is fine. The actual problem is rule one of the Dunning-Kruger club, which is that you never know whether you are inside it.
The classic Dunning-Kruger finding: People who perform worst on a task are supremely overconfident in their ability to perform that task.
But that's not the problem.
The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is that you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.
And that's the real problem.
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Eight subscriptions ago, my product thinking was a compressed mirror of whatever Marty Cagan and Lenny Rachitsky had written that month. Then I unsubscribed, one at a time, over a single quarter. The thinking that came back was sharper, and the trade is one I am quietly recommending to anyone who will sit with it.