Strange Attractor
Is there a word for something similar to the Dunning-Kruger effect, but for context?
Arguably, a person having a Dunning-Kruger moment is lacking the context of an expert, so Dunning-Kruger could be a special case of a more general concept.
Is there a special word for it? Something that implies no-self-awareness-of-need-to-code-switch and clueless-about-contexts-beyond-their-personal-experience?
a-random-cat
@strangeattractor narcissistic? The belief that everything in the world can be categorized within the narcissists model (which is deemed to be perfect and whole). Dunning kruger would be the specific narcissism towards a domain, say “intellect” or “ping pong”
Strange Attractor
Hmm, do you think that would fit for situational use? I notice people doing this some of the time, only toward some topics, not necessarily all of the time indiscriminately like a narcissist would.
Strange Attractor
Thank you for the word narcissistic though. It does fit in a lot of ways, and it's one I hadn't thought of.
Venkat
@strangeattractor I wrote but didn’t publish a think about it. It’s basically culture shock but down a power gradient, like a white tourist in Asia. Something like an illegibility effect kicks in. You don’t understand what you see (the culture shock part) but because you assume superiority, you have high-modernist contempt for it/false confidence in your judgments rooted in ignorance.
Strange Attractor
Yes that sounds like what I was thinking about.
I want to read up on it more, any suggestions for books to read about it, or for good search terms? "Culture shock" and "power gradient" and "illegibility" while clear to me isn't giving me much useful when typed into google.
temujin9
@strangeattractor The word "provincial" often carries connotations of this: the small-town mindset which cannot accept any other mindset. It does show up in other contexts, however, for which this doesn't fit as well.
RAW calls it a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_tunnel in Prometheus Rising, but that never entered general parlance. It also refers more to the totalizing nature of a worldview, rather than the failures caused by that nature.
No generic term for it that I can think of, sorry.
Strange Attractor
"Provincial" is interesting as a word, because the biggest filter for context before modern communications technology has been geography.
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