The Trinity of Quality (New Video)
Added 2022-06-29 11:55:36 +0000 UTCThanks for your support - this is a special "meta" video because it's based on the experience of nearly a decade of leading a creative team - the team that produces MinuteEarth. We have regular internal reviews & discussions of the art and craft of visual science communication, and this video is just one small tidbit of putting words to the ideas we've encountered in those discussions.
Henry
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I really like this video! I was reading Dunning-Kruger's actual paper a few months ago because I had read that their posits are somewhat different from the colloquial interpretation of their results - and I wanted to know what they actually were. Their findings were that the skills necessary to do a task are the same skills necessary to evaluate your performance on said task. In the terms of this video, they suggested that Discernment and Quality were linearly related. As an engineer and a musician though, my immediate thought is that there are definitely many cases where I've gained the ability to discern - very well - my level of skill and the difference between it and where I want to be ... but still have no idea how to fix it. This is directly contrary to Dunning-Kruger's findings. But it seems their findings are focused on technical skills with objective measures, whereas this is focused on creative processes (arts, fine arts, engineering, etc). I really like the distinction here between Quality and Discernment because it describes a phenomenon I've seen way-too-many times extremely well. I think I need to share this video around work because - as you pointed out - understanding whether disagreements are attributable to different Tastes/goals, different Discernment abilities, or something else entirely could be exceptionally important. As always, thank you for making such insightful, clear, and to-the-point videos!
Christopher Kemsley
2022-06-30 03:47:46 +0000 UTC
