RustyEarthfire

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Based on what I know of Imposter Syndrome and the Dunning-Kruger effect, it seems you’re at your most competent when you feel like you’re at your least.

I'm not sure how you come to that conclusion, even with the internet meme version of the Dunning-Kruger effect. In the meme version, the incompetent think they are most competent, but I don't think it follows that the most competent would think they are least competent.

I would summarize the actual Dunning-Kruger effect as: people tend to think they are a bit above average, and actual skill factors in only slightly. Worth emphasizing that these results are over groups of people, and individuals have extreme variation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

Dunning-Kruger percentile chart

Dunning-Kruger raw score chart

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

That's tough buddy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh man, don’t stop

You got it! Here's some other consumer protections the administration has introduced recently:

  • Direct filing with the IRS
  • Price limits on asthma inhalers and insulin for seniors
  • Requiring ISPs to provide consistent up-front information and pricing
  • Restrictions on college junk fees and disallowing witholding of transcripts

Hungry for more? Check this out:

White House Statement on Junk Fees

That's from October, so some of it overlaps, but among other stuff there's still a "Click to Cancel" rule working its way through the FTC.

Sadly Biden has been spending a bunch of time on lame crap like climate change, human rights, health care, infrastructure, election integrity, etc., so it might take a bit longer for him to single-handedly usher in consumer utopia.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (4 children)

This seems entirely opposite to my observation. I'd say Biden and his administration are unusually focused on unfair or annoying business practices. In just the past two weeks the Biden administration:

  • Set clear rules requiring cash refunds for flight delays
  • Banned non-compete clauses
  • Set new rules on "junk fees" for credit cards
  • Increased the minimum salary for overtime exemption
  • Expanded fiduciary duty to retirement "advisors"
  • Announced a lawsuit against Live Nation (TicketMaster)
  • Re-instated net neutrality
[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Funny running across this article after reading https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google/

Spoiler: the author does not have a high opinion of Raghavan.