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Intelligence
Document Type
Pre-Print
Publication Date
2023
Subjects
Dunning-Kruger Effect, Mere Statistical Explanations; Self-Assessed Intelligence, Measurement Theory, Levels of Measurement
Abstract
Gignac and Zajenkowski (2020) find that “the degree to which people mispredicted their objectively measured intelligence was equal across the whole spectrum of objectively measured intelligence”. This Comment shows that Gignac and Zajenkowski’s (2020) finding of homoscedasticity is likely the result of a recoding choice by the experimenters and does not in fact indicate that the Dunning-Kruger Effect is a mere statistical artifact. Specifically, Gignac and Zajenkowski (2020) recoded test subjects’ responses to a question regarding self-assessed comparative IQ onto a linear IQ scale when a normal IQ scale would likely have been more appropriate. More generally, researchers studying self-assessed intelligence should be aware of potential measurement problems that may arise when transforming an ordinal scale onto an interval scale.
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DOI
10.1016/j.intell.2023.101732
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/39834
Citation Details
Published as: Hiller, A. (2023). Comment on Gignac and Zajenkowski,“The Dunning-Kruger effect is (mostly) a statistical artefact: Valid approaches to testing the hypothesis with individual differences data”. Intelligence, 97, 101732.
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Uncorrected pre-print. Please cite published version, available at https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gg50aSXM2aH4 (free until April 15, 2023) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289623000132 (after April 15, 2023)