I'm not sure I agree with that. I thought Dunning-Kruger requires the person to NOT know they are in over their head or misunderstanding their level of knowledge. "Fake it 'til you make it" is acknowledgement and awareness by the person they are not knowledgeable/competent, but will pretend they are until they acquire the knowledge they lack. The big difference is the awareness.
Dunning-Kruger = not having the awareness
"Fake it 'til you make it" = being very the aware, but choosing to go forward anyway
Plus, I thought it said basically that no-one really gauges their level of competency correctly. It includes people who are more competent than they think they are, as well as those who overestimate their competency.
Except Dunning-Kruger is invalid. There's a lot of conflicting data on it.
Yup - it's a statistical artifact: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.840180/full
18 citations is not much for a paper, though.
Anyway, besides a statistical approach is proved out of logical reasons, that you can’t know what you don’t know. Beginners in a field never have the overview of the entire play ground. So, they can’t know what they don’t know.
I really doubt many people follow that advice.
