{"id":25193,"date":"2020-06-08T21:15:34","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T21:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/?p=25193"},"modified":"2023-01-26T15:32:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T15:32:02","slug":"the-dunning-kruger-effect-and-demos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatdemo.com\/the-dunning-kruger-effect-and-demos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dunning\u2013Kruger Effect \u2013 and Demos"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIn the field of psychology, the Dunning\u2013Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, people cannot objectively evaluate their competence or incompetence.\u201d [Wikipedia]<\/p>\n

In other words, people often don\u2019t know what they don\u2019t know.\u00a0 Interestingly,<\/p>\n

\u201cOther investigations of the phenomenon, such as \u2018Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence\u2019 (2003), indicate that much incorrect self-assessment of competence derives from the person’s ignorance of a given activity’s standards of performance.\u00a0Dunning and Kruger’s research also indicates that training in a task, such as solving a logic puzzle, increases people’s ability to accurately evaluate how good they are at it.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Note:\u00a0 I am certainly not<\/em> saying that you are incompetent\u2026!]<\/p>\n

But consider:\u00a0 In the field of software demos, have you been trained \u2013 and in what ways?<\/p>\n

There are a number of potential areas of training with respect to software demos:<\/p>\n

The product itself:<\/p>\n