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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Dunning-Kruger Effect has weighty implications for how we live. Source: Photo by Adi Goldstein on Unsplash When I posted a podcast episode on imposter syndrome on social media, a follower brought ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Perhaps you’ve heard of the Dunning-Kruger effect? It’s where someone with limited understanding of an area of knowledge tends to overestimate their competence. Dunning-Kruger seems to particularly ...