Over the years, the Dunning-Kruger effect has gone from a scientific hypothesis to a popular meme, pulled out in shouting matches across social media. In the hierarchy of insults, there are few more ...

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where individuals with limited knowledge or competence in an area overestimate their understanding or abilities. It arises when their lack of expertise ...

Recently, I encountered a chart that visualizes the so-called Dunning-Kruger Effect, and it caught my attention. The Dunning-Kruger effect is a phenomenon in which people’s confidence in their own ...

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

Why do some people seem most confident when they know the least? This video breaks down the Dunning-Kruger effect — the psychological blind spot that makes people overestimate their ability while ...

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 ...

In the past, some prominent psychologists have explained President Donald Trump’s unwavering support by alluding to a well-established psychological phenomenon known as the “Dunning-Kruger effect.” ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kent Lauder’s superb guest perspective, “War on Science” (Daily Journal, July 23) brought out the most science challenged commentators in the online edition. They seemed very eager to expose their ...