The Dunning-Kruger Effect is in full force these days. It posits that those with less knowledge of a subject have more certainty about the subject. For example, a layman is far more certain about the ...

The lesson isn’t that dumb people are overconfident, according to its co-creator. It’s that you are. Few psychological rules have as high a public profile as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Way back in ...

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 ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect says people who know the least are most overconfident. Source: Photo by Samson Katt from Pexels The Dunning-Kruger effect is commonly invoked in online arguments to discredit ...

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 ...

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 ...

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The Dunning-Kruger Effect is in full force these days. It posits that those with less knowledge of a subject have more certainty about the subject. For example, a layman is far more certain about the ...