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The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Knock yourselves out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48890730

TLDR?

Temperature measurements and "trends" in the distant past which the current "crisis" is built on, is based on methods that seem to be very unreliable and dependent on some unjustifiable assumptions.

Re: The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)

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Isn't trying to discount published research with a glorified blog post the Dunning-Kruger Effect in action?

Do you think there's some element in published research that makes it automagically correct? Papers saying that lead in petrol was totally safe were "published research", as were the papers saying that replacing tetraethyl lead with benzine made it safer. Both of those turned out to be pretty majorly wrong, but they were "published research".

There's definitely nothing that makes a published paper automagically correct. But the papers you mention were probably shown to be wrong by further published research, not with blog posts.

Trying to discount published research with a blog post is just intellectual laziness. Those loudmouths should put their research money where their mouths are.

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