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author:: Psychology Today
full title:: Dunning-Kruger Effect
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- Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a specific area. This tends to occur because a lack of self-awareness prevents them from accurately assessing their own skills. (View Highlight)
- The pair tested participants on their logic, grammar, and sense of humor, and found that those who performed in the bottom quartile rated their skills far above average. (View Highlight)
- problem of metacognition—the ability to analyze one’s own thoughts or performance. “Those with limited knowledge in a dom (View Highlight)
- Many individuals mistakenly believe that their experience and skills in one particular area are transferable to another. (View Highlight)
- overconfidence, called overprecision, occurs when someone is exaggeratedly certain that their answers are correct. These individuals may seem highly competent and persuasive due to their apparent confidence (View Highlight)
- people can be their own devil’s advocates, by challenging themselves to probe how (View Highlight)