How much people put faith in the Dunning-Kruger effect which has been shown to appear even with random data is evidence of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
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@me What I meant is that people assume the Dunning-Kruger effect is real because they actually don't know any better, which is a behavior the Dunning-Kruger effect purported to demonstrate in test results vs individual confidence about these results. However the effect shows also in random data, which should disprove it. But people being confident in the existence of this effect actually gives it credence, albeit pragmatically, not statistically.
@hypolite I am having difficulty parsing this sentence.
Are you alluding to the fact that people will tend to see patterns in random data and draw false conclusions from that perceived pattern?