The Dunning-Kruger effect perfectly describes the behavior and inability of some people to recognize their own level, precisely because of the lack of knowledge in the field. And because of personal overestimation, and the acute lack of critical, rational thinking.
Bingo! Our schools teach children they are ALL good, valuable, and worthy. That is, of course, OK because everyone
should feel good about himself. Yet, they go too far teaching everyone can be whatever he wants to be, as if every kid really can become President, or play better than Michael Jordan, or be a brain surgeon like Jethro Bodine (a particularly apropos example of one who is substantially more confident in his abilities than he deserves.)
This sort of delusional self-appraisal drives many YouTubers to pretend they are all experts helping others become voice over artists, and produce
YET ANOTHER "review" of the SM-58, or yet another video proclaiming this or that is
THE best microphone, in a never ending string of "best" microphone reviews week after week. They actually believe they are recording engineers making a valuable contribution.
The Dunning-Kruger effect describes this phenomenon well. Further reinforcement is the large number of delusional YouTube FOLLOWERS who subscribe to these silly channels and defend the producers against all comers who deign to post a negative comment or call them out, because they, in turn, feel so incompetent (yet hopeful) they look up to these shills as "experts" trying to help them along their journey to stardom. Of course, we are all stars in our own way ... sort of ... I mean, if you have your own channel, you must be good. Right?
Spot on, and you struck that awful nerve again, Mr.
@micolas. J
PS -- there is an equally egregious parallel delusional patten among novice amateur radio operators. For some silly reason, they consider themselves experts simply because they passed a license exam. Trust me, that is NOT enough to qualify anyone as an expert on anything. Many want to become volunteer examiners to "give back to the ham community" ... um ... like for what? Proctoring a written exam? Sheesh! We now have a whole cadre of young operators on YouTube producing silly sophomoric videos about all sorts of basic topics, like how to build a simple dipole antenna - as if we need more videos on that banal topic - a colossal, duplicitous waste of time, as if they discovered it first! The foolishly hold themselves out as experts as if everyone else is an ignoramus. They foolishly believe they are making a significant and important contribution to the science; notwithstanding there are hundreds of books and previous videos which already supply more detailed technical - so, manifesting the Dunning-Krugger effect, they drive on and on, and anyone who criticizes them is declared an enemy of the hobby! It is just plain NUTS. / J
