According to Wikipedia, the Dunning-Kruger effect It is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their skills. It was first described by David Dunning and Justin Kruger in 1999.
The Dunning-Kruger effect has always been a problem for kitchen designers. For example, the first conversation with many potential clients often begins with them telling us why they don’t need a kitchen designer. They believe that “they know exactly what they want.” Often, architects, engineers, interior designers, contractors and chefs believe that their limited experience qualifies them to design kitchens. Or as a person called that he had done a couple of other renewal projects “this is not my first rodeo.”
As with other experiences, he is actually experienced for years to work as a professional cooking designer to be good.
Find online not an expert!
These days, many professions are subject to frustrations that kitchen design professionals have had to tolerate for decades due to the Internet and the ease of online search. Any doctor will tell you that many of your patients are now qualified to diagnose. They even question expert medical advice on all issues. For them, do a search on Google or listen to a podcast can overcome decades of medical training?
Reliable news sources are also challenged with people who get their news from highly questionable sources. This is what is behind conspiracy theories and is commonly found as a fact in social networks, irresponsible websites and “news” organizations.
Kitchen design experts also have to work with the bad advice granted to the owners of architects, interior designers, contractors and chefs who have always made our work harder.
And now, HGTV, Houzz and the DIY network also transmit unreliable information 24/7. The information that the public obtains from these sources is even worse than the bad advice they obtain from the periphery professionals. The result is a “dunning-krucer” audience that is much more difficult to help, what were only a few years ago.
Commercial Fairs Participants outside the National Show of the Kitchen and Bathroom Industry
And then there is the substantial increase in people who look at these programs entering the design of the kitchen and the remodeling profession without any real experience. Going to events in the kitchen industry and the bathroom becomes increasingly disturbing as more of these armchairs experts with too much time in their hands fill events. They are invited to these events because they have clients who, without knowing anything better, chose to work with them.
Due to the dunning -kruger effect, we are seeing more strange and problematic kitchens every day. And a bad kitchen hurts the resale value.
Commercial magazines and industry events have received expanded participation. Unfortunately, this communicates a tacit acceptance of breaking the essential rules in the design of the kitchen.
In Main Line Kitchen Design, our mission is to give you the best design for your space. We even debate with customers in the early stages of the design to avoid selecting something with errors that may make it difficult to live in their renewed cuisine and resell their homes.
A little knowledge is something dangerous. Be careful with the credentials of the designers with whom they work.
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