Smart people can suffer from deformation professionnelle (“occupational deformity”)—a DKE-related tendency to view the world through the lens of one’s own profession.380 It’s not surprising that a mathematician looks at a psychological phenomenon and sees only the statistics. Performing statistical analysis on psychology research while unaware of decades of underlying research in psychology sounds a lot like the Dunning-Kruger effect at work.
Deformtion profesionalle
