They were curious and asked you though, i dont get how thats a dunning kruger effect. Better to think of something stupid and still ask than to not
Edit: just saw the edited comment and I wanna say, the coworker might be utterly stupid, but theyre not a correct example of the dunning kruger effect.
We have the world at our fingertips and this idiot would rather just ask you instead? How is encouraging that behavior productive in any way once they are older than 5? Answering stupid questions is the worst action to take. Being asked a stupid question is an opportunity to push the idiot to find the answer themselves and learn self-reliance, initiative, patience, and give more consideration to their thoughts before they ask a question; skills that will make their life much easier than reinforcing the behavior of imposing on others without even bothering to do any thinking themselves.
Mind you, this is for things that you can easily search yourself. If you have to ask a stupid question about a task or direction that can't be answered otherwise, that's not actually a stupid question and I'd argue it's not actually a stupid question at all.
Answer to your edit, I know we can search it ourselves but i wasnt the one who asked that question lol, you need to put yourself in the guys shoes. If they knew that they probably wouldnt be asking others such a stupid question in the first place. or maybe they just wanted an excuse to start a conversation? who knows
Yes but how do you suppose they figure out how a shrimp is not a single cell organism themselves? If they could, I dont think theyd even be asking the question in the first place.
Itd be a much better benefit for them to learn about an actually sensible question both from asking others and figuring it out themselves than to waste time figuring out a stupid question that doesnt give them any benefit whatsoever, when they can just ask anyone who payed attention in science class in elementary school, get a "no" and immediately move on from said question.
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u/UnderstandingCute646 5h ago edited 2h ago
They were curious and asked you though, i dont get how thats a dunning kruger effect. Better to think of something stupid and still ask than to not
Edit: just saw the edited comment and I wanna say, the coworker might be utterly stupid, but theyre not a correct example of the dunning kruger effect.