Optimism can carry a project only so far. Every transformation hits a reality check. The excitement of the launch fades, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is more problematic in remote work environments, as cognitive bias tends to be easier to identify in an office, where there are more sensory signals to help assertiveness and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...