I think Dunning Krueger makes intuitive sense. When you become skilled in your field you learn from other people in your field, and your assessment of yourself is based on your relation to the skills of those other people. But if you know very little about something, you have no reference point to evaluate yourself against. When you learn something you also learn what are some of the mistakes you can make. You evalua…
I think that's assuming more ignorance than even an unskilled person has. If you had never listened to a professional play piano before then you'd have no idea what level of performance is possible. Similarly, if you had never seen skilled skaters perform on TV. But we have done these things, so it's obvious that they're doing something that's very difficult. Maybe you don't fully appreciate the skill, though. You wo…
But we have done these things, so it's obvious that they're doing something that's very difficult.
Sometimes the things we find most impressive, in a demonstration of a skill we don't have, aren't the most difficult things.
I remember being absolutely blown away by some aerial circus tricks and stunts I saw at shows. Later, I started studying and eventually performing myself, and it's often the case that the most crowd-pleasing stunts are some of the easiest to perform.
As a performer, you could always tell which members of the audience knew their stuff, because they'd be the only ones applauding the tricks that might not have looked so spectacular, but were actually the most difficult.