Few psychological rules have as high a public profile as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Way back in 1999, David Dunning and Justin Kruger showed that the people who were least competent at a given task ...

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People with limited knowledge and competences in a given intellectual or social field significantly overestimate their capabilities. These words perfectly capture the ...

Eduardo Mello is the co-founder and CTO of Alabama Solutions, which offers nearshore outsourcing and IT staff augmentation services. The Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias, reveals a curious ...

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The Dunning-Kruger effect shows that confidence and skill do not always match. Sometimes the least qualified person dominates the conversation, and sometimes the most capable holds back. The challenge ...

Named after a pair of psychologists who described it in a classic 1999 paper, the Dunning-Kruger effect describes a common dynamic most of us have observed in everyday life. People who know the least ...

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where people tend to overestimate their own abilities and knowledge in specific areas, especially when their actual competence level is low. This ...

Several years back I wrote a post about the Dunning-Kruger effect. At the time I was still getting my metaphorical sea legs for writing and, as a result, I don't think the post turned out as well as ...

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People who are the worst at doing something also tend to severely overestimate how good they are at doing it, while those who are actually skilled tend to not realize their true talent. This galling ...

The lesson isn’t that dumb people are overconfident, according to its co-creator. It’s that you are. Few psychological rules have as high a public profile as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Way back in ...