The Dunning-Kruger effect describes a disturbing cognitive bias that afflicts us all. People with limited expertise in an ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

These words perfectly capture the essence of the Dunning-Kruger effect, i.e. a cognitive error that causes one to overestimate one's abilities. We explain what this ...

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge," wrote Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man (1871). Experimental findings reported in 1999 by social psychologists David Dunning and ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- You may not be as great as you think you are. That's according to David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the co-winners of the 2023 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in ...