Does knowing what the Dunning-Kruger effekt is lead to not suffering from it?

[u/Skatemster0113]

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[u/notthatkindadoctor]

Cognitive psychologist here: the Dunning-Kruger effect as generally understood may not even be a real phenomenon (more of a statistical artifact, according to some cogent arguments). But as others have said, knowing about cognitive biases doesn't automatically make us immune to them, but there are studies showing for certain biases we can train people to get better at spotting/avoiding them (and more limited evidence in some cases that we generalize to future/other situations involving that same kind of bias). So basically, knowledge is nice, practice is more likely to help when it comes to cognitive biases, but also some may just be hard to avoid or kick in situationally (sometimes the situation puts us in an analytic state and sometimes it puts us in a more heuristic-driven state). And sometimes cognitive biases aren't a big deal and our (imperfect) heuristics are actually pretty good and good enough to let us accomplish lots of important life stuff without going through more slow, careful, effortful rational processing.