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Dunning, co-discoverer of the Dunning-Kruger effect, investigates the misinformation gap built into our brains: We don't know ...

David Dunning and Justin Kruger tested psychology students to see whether the least skilled were also the most unaware. Rich Vintage/E+ via Getty Images To test this, they gave 45 undergraduate ...

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 ...

Have you ever felt supremely confident about a skill or knowledge, only to discover that you were not as proficient as you thought? Or perhaps you’ve underestimated your abilities, thinking others ...

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What Is the Dunning-Kruger Effect? The Dunning-Kruger effect happens when when someone who isn't especially knowledgeable in a particular area overestimates how much they know or how good they are at ...

Named after psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate their knowledge or ability, particularly in areas ...

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 ...

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 ...