Day 80 of 365
March 21
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Psychology Dunning-Kruger Effect
The Dunning-Kruger effect describes how people with limited knowledge in a domain overestimate their competence while experts underestimate theirs. Incompetent people lack the metacognitive ability to recognize their incompetence. This cognitive bias explains why confident but wrong opinions spread widely and why experts are often more uncertain than novices. Gaining expertise involves recognizing how much you don't know.
💡 Did you know?
The researchers won an Ig Nobel Prize for their work - awards given for research that 'makes people laugh, then think'!
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