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 ...

Is Google causing us to lose sight of where our own knowledge ends, and the internet’s knowledge begins? This question is addressed in a new study by Adrian Ward of the University of Texas at Austin’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

I want the Dunning-Kruger effect to be real. First described in a seminal 1999 paper by David Dunning and Justin Kruger, this effect has been the darling of journalists who want to explain why dumb ...

People with limited knowledge and competences in a given intellectual or social field significantly overestimate their capabilities. These words perfectly capture the ...

We all have what are known as “cognitive biases.” These mental blindspots affect how we perceive the world, ourselves, and the decisions we make. The worst part about a cognitive bias is that it’s ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect shows that confidence and skill do not always match. Sometimes the least qualified person dominates the conversation, and sometimes the most capable holds back. The challenge ...

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 Dunning-Kruger effect is one of the most famous—and predictable—biases in human behavior. It posits that people who don’t understand a topic also lack sufficient knowledge to recognize that they ...