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Message: [QUOTE="duderino89, post: 6242318, member: 384797"] Well the examples given in these threads lead me to the conclusion that a lot of the players that talk smack at the poker table - tilt about "bad plays" from other players fell into the "Dunning-Kruger-Effect" trap. The Dunning-Kruger-effect describes the correlation between knowledge and self-consciousness. At the beginning everyone starts at 0 knowledge and 0 self-consciousness. But as soon as you start getting the first knowledge and start to understand a little bit the self-consciousness rises to extreme heights because you think you know everything and don't have enough knowledge at that moment to realize how much of the topic you are still missing. The more knowledge you gain though the faster you realize how big the topic is - the more knowledge you have - the more you know what you don't know. So whilst gaining knowledge a lot of players then start to loose a lot of self-consciousness. This effect can be titled "con man syndrome" because the person in that state thinks that his work is way worse then it seems to the outside. Only later when you start nearly conquering the whole topic players in poker start getting the self-consciousness back to a point where it matches their knowledge. But in poker the meta-game always changes - the knowledge from 10 years ago wouldn't be worth a lot today - and there you can see players from 10 years ago falling into the trap of the dunning-kruger-effect as well, even though at one point they were up there. Hope you guys found that interesting and if you like to find out more about the dunning-kruger-effect just google it - really helps you understanding where you stand with your skills. [/QUOTE]

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