The Dunning-Kruger effect, in psychology, is a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or the general population.
Conversely, those with high ability often underestimate their skills. This effect stems from a lack of metacognition, which is the ability to accurately assess one's own knowledge and skills.
One good example of the Dunning-Kruger effect are individuals who engage in self-medication and self-prescription.
They think they understand their health and their bodies more than anybody. So what whatever little knowledge they have, they acted like doctors to themselves. They choose unhealthy or risky behaviors while believing they are taking good care of themselves.
The Dunning-Kruger effect is a defense mechanism, and it acts like a protective force by allowing people to view themselves through a slightly more optimistic lens. This could encourage them to try new things, take risks, and maintain the confidence necessary to improve themselves.
Based on the image above ... did Senator Bato de la Rosa have the Dunning-Kruger effect when he allowed himself (being an impeachment judge) to test the murky waters of lawyering for the embattled VP?
Although he is aware that he is not a lawyer, he ventured into a domain where he has no knowledge, and he took the job with too much firepower. He was a bundle of nerves and was almost on the verge of a stroke.
I likened his enthusiasm to helping his friend more like entering the twilight zone ... where he doesn't mind getting the flak he is getting now, for as long as he showed his willingness to be the warrior-en-chief for the VP-in-distress.
And the way he ignores the censure ... the disapproval ... of the way he handled himself when he asked for the dismissal of the impeachment is commendable.
I commend him for how he made himself the living laughing stock of the Senate and how his temper tantrums fell to pieces to become a modern-day comedy of errors that will long be remembered in the history of impeachments.
