6/14/2023 0 Comments Dunning kruger graph![]() There are very few people who can really see what is going on because they need to read all the driver channels simultaneously (to visualize the car completely) to see what’s actually happening. Looking at the data will likely not help. It’s good though the journey can now begin. I say jumped and not pushed because they let them do it (usually hoping they would find something wrong with the car, not their driving). ![]() They have jumped off the cliff of over-confidence (and the blissfully ignorant position of being able to blame your lack of speed on everything but themselves). How does a driver get in the same car and go faster when the owner has the data trace and feeling that they drove a near perfect lap? Must be magic, right? At that moment, the owner of the car has been rather rudely sliding over to the right on the Dunning-Kruger chart. They get called “alien” a lot (or something similar) when that happens. It is common to have a “pro” driver hop in someone else’s car and have them immediately go significantly faster than the owner. They have to be able to picture how a car holistically works. It’s not it’s just that they, as mentioned, don’t know the direction of the first step. Well, if talent is knowledge, they might be right, but by calling it talent, they’re saying it’s unattainable for them. This is where it’s tempting to think or say someone is more talented than them (or cheating, or outspending them, etc.). The problem there is something important, some nuance missing from their knowledge base that’s causing the time loss and resulting frustration. Imagine (maybe you don’t have to) “feeling” your lap was “perfect” and being a second off? That would be smack in the Dunning-Kruger vortex…definition of frustrating? That lap was near perfection (“See, look at the data!”). Here’s why: Just managing understeer and oversteer is not enough, and by managing, I mean that the driver as quickly as they can fixes them so they don’t get so big that they feel (or see on their data later) a measurable loss of time. That should be it, right? It’s not, and it’s typically over a second off what the car could truly do. The goal is a well set-up car, then deftly held at the grip limit (defined by the set-up), while positioning the car exactly on the ideal line. Near perfect simple is not nearly potentially as good as imperfect more complex.Įxample: Most drivers up to very high levels of experience (could be decades of competitive driving) think being fast is only about speed and position. They are people who go too far in stripping things down into understandable chunks… and this is the important part: They just try to perfect their simplified version instead of continuing to add nuance. People stuck in Dunning-Kruger firstly don’t know it (obviously), but what is it they don’t know and what makes them oblivious to it? It’s actually pretty easy to see how it happens…one word: oversimplification. I state that greatness is in the nuance it is the holistic, all-encompassing understanding that is when it all snaps into focus, connects, and flows. The particular focus is figuring out what we don’t know, because the path to enlightenment might start with one step but how do we figure out the direction? In Optimum Drive, I use the word “nuance” a lot. ![]() That means we can apply this to anything, but, of course, here I will focus on using advanced driving techniques as the example. If that is a personality trait for us, we will go through this in every aspect of our lives. You often hear it described as “you don’t know what you don’t know,” and, if we are a person with some ego (everyone who is at least a little bit competitive), it’s easy to end up unwittingly on the left side of the graph. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognize their lack of ability.” Following up with the actual definition, according to Wikipedia: “In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with low ability at a task overestimate their ability.
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