Silver & Toxic Smurfs/Derankers

[predat0r-2569]

@Sikudani-2790

Every game has a smurf.

When you don’t know how bad you are it can be difficult to judge how good other people are:

@predat0r-2569

It’s healthy to believe you are above average, but the reality may be that whereas you have good game sense you may have terrible mechanics, so you may be accusing people with good mechanics as smurfing.

Other investigations of the phenomenon, such as “Why People Fail to Recognize Their Own Incompetence” (2003), indicate that much incorrect self-assessment of competence derives from the person’s ignorance of a given activity’s standards of performance.

-from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

(ie. having the misconception your mechanics are good could make you think anyone better is a smurf, when they are just slightly above average)