Dunning-Kruger Effect A Huge Problem In Coin Collecting

[Daniel]

If someone is like this and also suffer from a psychiatric illness they're the most difficult people to deal with. I get several calls daily and most are very nice people, but each day there's at least one that will not listen nor believe anything you tell them. They over-talk you, wont let you explain anything about their coin or how attribution works, they just merely called to validate themselves and not really seeking help. Since they're already convinced they know the answers but don't have enough knowledge to know they don't have the answer.

[Funky Strike]

You guys have the Patience of Saints!

I shake my head a lot following some of these comments and I know people want to finds a "winner" coin (I do too!)

I have to post this one - because I found it on another thread with the same basic idea

[Funky Strike]

Of course I forget the attachment!

[Earle42]

Dunning-Kruger...

Are you sure that's not mislabeled? I thought nowadays this was known as the brandon-pelosi Effect?

Just asking.

[Paul]

I had a response here Daniel, but I'll just bite my tongue........

[Mojave Gold]

I feel for what you must go through as a full-time dealer! It's a huge problem now days in every field. "A little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing". Last year I had a potential 'customer' bring in to me the same obviously fake Morgan at least four weeks in a row - trying to convince me to buy it. Wrong weight, clocked wrong, mildly magnetic alloy, cast instead of minted, missing most of the edge reeding! I didn't even bother to test it on the Sigma eddy current tester. He finally gave up, telling everyone within earshot that I didn't know what I was missing out on.