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From what I've seen, a few people are intuitively correct at reading others.

Unfortunately many people think they're intuitive regardless of how poor they actually are at reading others (high self-belief, but poor ability).

We all notice how it takes high skill to recognize the very highly skilled in areas we are talented in.

That was the less commonly talked about part of the Dunning Kruger Effect. While the Dunning Kruger paper has been somewhat dismissed now as due to statistical artifacts, the DK effect seems to resonate with real life so we want to believe it.



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