Seems quite different to me. D-K effect is “you overestimate how good you are at something”, while what I describe does not even involve a belief that you are good at the specific thing, only that—despite knowing nothing about it on the object level—you still have the meta-level ability of estimating how difficult it is “in principle”.
An example of what I meant would be a manager in an IT company, who has absolutely no idea what “fooing the bar” means, but feels quite certain that it shouldn’t take more than three days, including the analysis and testing.
While an example of D-K would be someone who writes a horrible code, but believes to be the best programmer ever. (And after looking at other people’s code, keeps the original conviction, because the parts of the code he understood he could obviously write too, and the parts of the code he didn’t understand are obviously written wrong.)
Seems quite different to me. D-K effect is “you overestimate how good you are at something”, while what I describe does not even involve a belief that you are good at the specific thing, only that—despite knowing nothing about it on the object level—you still have the meta-level ability of estimating how difficult it is “in principle”.
An example of what I meant would be a manager in an IT company, who has absolutely no idea what “fooing the bar” means, but feels quite certain that it shouldn’t take more than three days, including the analysis and testing.
While an example of D-K would be someone who writes a horrible code, but believes to be the best programmer ever. (And after looking at other people’s code, keeps the original conviction, because the parts of the code he understood he could obviously write too, and the parts of the code he didn’t understand are obviously written wrong.)