Dunning-Kruger effect
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English
Etymology
Coined on everything2 in 2002 by user uucp, who in 2005 copied the same entry to Wikipedia under the title Dunning-Kruger syndrome, named for David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University, who studied the phenomenon.
Noun
Dunning-Kruger effect (plural Dunning-Kruger effects)
- (psychology) A cognitive bias by which an unskilled individual suffers from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability as much higher than it actually is.
- Synonyms: (initialism) DKE, (abbreviation) Dunning-Kruger, Dunning-Kruger bias
- 2012, Alex Lickerman, The Undefeated Mind, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- Though it grants them the advantage of higher levels of optimism, the Dunning-Kruger effect also hamstrings low performers with an even greater disadvantage: being less aware of their failings, they remain less likely to see the need, and thus make the effort, to improve themselves.
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Dunning–Kruger effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
