How difficult is it to ask "would you like to dance"?
I can accept it from old friends
because we are not pretending to be decent people anymore
and I am soo nice cover has fallen,
however, even my friends do more than just show me their open palm,
or just grab me to the dance floor like if I am a potato bag (a very heavy one, btw).
Be kind and ask for consent
and also maybe smile in not a creepy way.
On a blurry morning,
after a full week of intense swing dancing in Stockholm,
dancing all night to hit the breakfast at 7 am,
I overheard a conversation about the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Please don't judge me: the breakfast area was overcrowded
and it was "almost" impossible not to listen to the 2 advance dancer talking next to me :).
The Dunning-Kruger effect is dangerous on the dance floor, please be aware!
In the field of psychology, the Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people of low ability have illusory superiority and mistakenly assess their cognitive ability as greater than it is. The cognitive bias of illusory superiority comes from the inability of low-ability people to recognize their lack of ability. Without the self-awareness of metacognition, low-ability people cannot objectively evaluate their actual competence or incompetence.[1]
As described by social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the cognitive bias of illusory superiority results from an internal illusion in people of low ability and from an external misperception in people of high ability; that is, "the miscalibration of the incompetent stems from an error about the self, whereas the miscalibration of the highly competent stems from an error about others."[1]