Social Awareness and Ideology: Self-Assessment and Socio-Civic Knowledge Competence

Joseph Maderick (), Steven Grubaugh (), Gregg Levitt () and Allen Deever ()
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Joseph Maderick: College of Education, Department of Teaching and Learning, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Steven Grubaugh: College of Education, Department of Teaching and Learning, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Gregg Levitt: College of Education, Department of Teaching and Learning, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Allen Deever: University of Nevada, Reno

Technium Social Sciences Journal, 2021, vol. 22, issue 1, 409-444

Abstract:  "The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt" (Russell, 1933, p. 28). One seldom hears doubt in the espousing of socio-civic, cultural, or political pronouncements. While the voices seem to always be “cocksure;†we first ask at what level is their objective knowledge and how well do they self-assess that knowledge? We explore how ideological positioning is related to self-assessment and objective knowledge. We conducted a non-comparative (absolute) quantitative study through an email survey of 330 residents of the U.S. over the age of 18 that examined objective socio-civic knowledge and self-assessed ideology and wokeness. The experimental results confirmed misestimations consistent with Dunning-Kruger Effects.

Keywords: Ideology; Wokeness; Cognitive Bias; Socio-Civic Knowledge; Dunning-Kruger Effect (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.47577/tssj.v22i1.4249

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