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[randomness]

There's pretty clearly some corollary of the Dunning-Kruger effect that applies to annoying, irritating, or otherwise unpleasant people.

(Obviously some of the people in those categories are consciously being jerks. On the other hand, there's no reason to think the effect has an exception for social skills.)

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[redbird]

Broadly speaking, no—the difference that occurs to me is that people who think of driving or engineering or cooking as skillsets might not think of social skills that way. I wonder if that effect also applies to things like people assuming they are more dextrous or attractive or socially smooth than they are.

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

*nod* Some of th most clueless people I've known have gone on and on about how good they are at understanding others… which is a good thing for me to remember as I work at not joining their number.

[rmd.livejournal.com]

One of the weird things to come out of me businessy leadership class is that I seem to be better at soft-skills than I thought.

Or rather the folks running the class and my peers claim my soft skills are better than I think they are.

[muffyjo]

Thank you for the link. It's not something I was familiar with and I love that it has been so nicely defined.