What's the name of that cognitive bias when you think you're below
average because you're comparing yourself to your peers rather than to
the norm?
I looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases , nothing strikes me as it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse-than-average_effect is not it. I'm also not thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome . More like a selection bias when it comes to estimating the average in the greater population.
I looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases , nothing strikes me as it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse-than-average_effect is not it. I'm also not thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome . More like a selection bias when it comes to estimating the average in the greater population.
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I have long since forgotten where it was that I just
wanted to insert "Are you sure this is not just X?" into some comment
thread.
Maybe reverse Dunning-Kruger is a good enough label.
Ironically, the most competent people in a given area are more likely to under-estimate their ability compared to others, whereas those most lacking tend to vastly overestimate, in a psychological phenomenon known as the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I think it may have been in connection with lobste.rs users thinking that anyone setting up MongoDB would have proper firewalls in place.