Autistische Arbeitnehmer sind weniger anfällig für den Dunning-Kruger-Effekt. Autistische Teilnehmer schätzten ihre eigene Leistung bei einer Aufgabe genauer ein. Der Dunning-Kruger-Effekt ist eine kognitive Verzerrung, bei der Menschen mit geringen Fähigkeiten oder Kenntnissen in einem Bereich dazu neigen, ihre Kompetenzen zu überschätzen.
Autistic employees are less susceptible to the Dunning-Kruger effect
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.70139
From the linked article:
**Autistic employees are less susceptible to the Dunning-Kruger effect**
A study involving participants in Canada and the U.S. found that **autistic employees are less susceptible to the Dunning–Kruger effect than their non-autistic peers. After completing a cognitive reflection task, autistic participants estimated their own performance in the task more accurately than non-autistic participants**. The research was published in Autism Research.
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability or knowledge in a domain tend to overestimate their competence. This happens because the skills needed to perform well are often the same skills needed to accurately judge one’s performance.
As a result, individuals who lack expertise may also lack the metacognitive insight required to recognize their own mistakes. High-ability individuals, in contrast, may underestimate themselves because they assume tasks that feel easy to them are easy for others.
Results showed that participants who were the least successful in the tasks tended to overestimate their achievement, while those who were the most successful tended to underestimate it. However, the lowest-performing autistic participants overestimated their results significantly less than the lowest-performing non-autistic participants.
When looking at the average (middle) performers, non-autistic participants continued to exhibit greater overestimation of their performance than autistic participants.
Finally, among high-performing participants, autistic individuals underestimated their abilities more than non-autistic participants. While non-autistic high performers slightly underestimated themselves, the autistic high performers demonstrated a stronger tendency to underestimate both their raw scores and their percentile ranking relative to peers.
Overall, the difference between actual and estimated performance was significantly lower for autistic than non-autistic employees.
Is this why when I say I know I can’t do something and state my limits, people get upset with me?
Or when I say confidently i can do somwthing people assume I’m talking out of my ass?
I tend to take people at their word for their capabilities too.
Another score for autistics.
Its long been established they are measurably more rational and more resilient against a wide array of cognitive biases.
Interesting finding. It suggests that accurate self-assessment may depend more on cognitive style than ability level.
Would be good to see if this holds across different tasks and real-world settings.
My boss was complaining about this to me today because she caught me rushing around and told me to relax. „The highly productive people who could stand to relax a little never do. And the people who could stand to add a little urgency don’t either.“ I’m neurospicy and this post resonates.
Wasn’t that just shown to be bad math anyway?
We are acutely aware of our inadequacies and also where we fuckin crush it
Put 20 people in a room..I might miss something they all get but I’ll find something they all miss
Well… Clearly not ALL autistic people. Unless they weren’t counting the ones at the top.
Turns out a lifetime of second guessing oneself has some advantages.