Confidence

agenda

Competency & Confidence

Dunning-Kruger

Imposter Syndrome

Objectives

Understand the relationship between competency and confidence

Be aware of Dunning-Kruger and Imposter Syndrome

Confidence & Competency

Perceived competency & projected confidence

  • People that exude confidence are perceived to be competent
  • People that exude no confidence are perceived to be incompetent
  • This is because judging confidence is easy while judging competency is very difficult
  • So we often don't judge competency and make assumptions about competency based on confidence

Is this fair? Why? Discuss with your neighbor.

COnfidence

Write down from 0-5 how confident you feel about performing these tasks:

Perceived Proxy of Competence.

  1. Create an array with the elements 1, 2, and 3 in it
  2. Write a VP8 video encoding/decoding program
  3. Count how many bricks are in the walls in the classroom
  4. Acquire the tender to pay bus fare today
  5. Push changes in a git repo to GitHub
  6. Use jQuery to create a button that dances on the screen when clicked

COmpetency

Discuss with your neighbor what you need to do to prove you can perform the action:

Ability to do Something Successfully.

  1. Create an array with the elements 1, 2, and 3 in it
  2. Write a VP8 video encoding/decoding program
  3. Count how many bricks are in the walls in the classroom
  4. Acquire the tender to pay bus fare today
  5. Push changes in a git repo to GitHub
  6. Use jQuery to create a button that dances on the screen when clicked
  1. Was it easier to say how confident you were or how to prove competency?
  2. If someone is confident they can do something, does that mean they can do it?
  3. If someone is not confident they can do something, does that mean they can not do it?
  4. Is Mastery Tracking a measure of confidence or competence?

DUNNING-KRUGER

A cognitive bias in which low-competency individuals suffer from illusory superiority

Those with poor Competency have a tendency to compensate with more confidence

We compensate because we all try to tell ourselves we are normal and normal people can do this

Q1 Confidence

Student with Dunning-Kruger Q1

  1. Thinks they don't have to work hard or learn
  2. Don't even try because that would break their illusion of competence
  3. Exudes confidence despite not being able to perform tasks
  4. Struggles during Q2 because they developed poor learning habits during Q1

What are some actions a student could do to recognize they are suffering Dunning-Kruger?

Imposter Syndrome

Those with high competency have a tendency to compensate with lower confidence

Q1 Confidence

Student with Imposter Syndrome Q1

  1. Will do a task and tell themselves they still don't understand it after proving competency
  2. Will feel like a fraud that doesn't belong
  3. Exudes no confidence despite being able to perform tasks
  4. Struggles with interviews

What are some actions a student could do to recognize they are suffering Imposter Syndrome?

In Software Development

More people identify with Imposter Syndrome than Dunning-Kruger

Going forward:

  • stop associating confidence with competence

  • THIS IS A SPECTRUM, not a boolean

*This is a problem almost exclusive to the USA

Europe has less of a negative correlation between confidence and competence

 

Asia has direct correlation between confidence and competence

Objectives

Understand the relationship between competency and confidence

BE AWARE OF DUNNING-KRUGER AND IMPOSTER SYNDROME

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