A new study suggests that the average person may be far more aware of their own lack of political knowledge than previously thought. Contrary to the popular idea that people consistently overestimate ...

The 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 ...

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 ...

Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people come to incorrect conclusions about their knowledge and skill levels, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize ...

We all have what are known as “cognitive biases.” These mental blindspots affect how we perceive the world, ourselves, and the decisions we make. The worst part about a cognitive bias is that it’s ...

The idea that the least skilled among us overestimate their abilities more than anyone else is the gist of what’s known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, something that has appeared in headlines in ...

Intelligence failures almost never come from having too little information—they come from believing too much in what little ...

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In the 1990s, David Dunning and Justin Kruger were professors of psychology at Cornell University and wanted to test whether incompetent people were unaware of their incompetence. To test this, they ...