Dunning–Kruger effect
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Psychology #
- The Dunning–Kruger effect is a Cognitive Bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.
- Some researchers also include the opposite effect for high performers: their tendency to underestimate their skills.
- In popular culture, the Dunning–Kruger effect is often misunderstood as a claim about general overconfidence of people with low intelligence instead of specific overconfidence of people unskilled at a particular task.