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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Dunning-Kruger effect

According to the Dunning-Kruger effect, the less you know, the more you think you know.


The Dunning-Kruger effect occurs when incompetent people not only perform a task poorly or incompetently, but lack the competence to realize their own incompetence at a task and thus consider themselves much more competent than everyone else. Put more crudely, they're too stupid to realize they're stupid.
If you have no doubts whatsoever about your brilliance, you could just be that damn good. On the other hand...

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