Thoughts on week 11

Our last class session was on Friday 18th December. A further six group presentations were given this week, including my group.

Preparing our presentation was a good learning experience; I now know how to use the presentation package in Google documents, we made time to practice our presentation beforehand, which helped with timing etc and I feel as if I know the Kruger & Dunning experiments like the back of my hand!

Listening & watching the other presentations also provided food for thought; don't get caught up in trying to repeat every little detail from a paper, I did this to a certain extent when preparing my slides, but luckily learnt from the presentations before ours how boring it can be to be told how many students took part; this point also carries over into the actual slides - lots of text is not visually interesting, unless it contains spelling mistakes and then it's just annoying (!). Another point is keep to the time allocated - it's not easy to maintain interest after the second long presentation (so I haven't got anything to write about subject matter this week!).

However, all of this is useful from the point of view of improving my own presentations.

So, just the wiki page on "overconfidence" to work on now. I'm looking specifically at a paper that addresses the criticisms of the Kruger & Dunning study, which we used for our presentation, so am interested to see how further research develops the topic...