Our PM’s tweets and outbursts against the opposition in the COAS extension case is an illustration of this effect
KARACHI: In the field of psychology, the Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. It is related to the cognitive bias of illusory superiority and comes from the inability of people to recognise their lack of ability.
Our PM’s tweets and outbursts against the opposition in the COAS extension case is an illustration of this effect. How on earth can someone take the whole episode of a “technical bloopers and ineptness on the part of his own people to draft a legally frail extension order” as a conspiracy by the opposition to create fissures and frictions between institutions? But since you are the victim of the Dunning-Kruger effect and unable to think beyond yourself, such things do happen. One shouldn’t have qualms in admitting one’s mistakes to avoid such gaffes in future. But instead, our PM took the denunciation path. Only God knows for how long the PM and his able aides would keep playing the blame game and stay oblivious of their own shortcomings. It’s high time they focused on performance issues which are below par by all standards.
Ali Ammar
Published in The Express Tribune, December 5th, 2019.
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