Periodicals>Journal Article: Kruger, Justin and Dunning, David (1999), Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology , 77 (6): 1121–34. , Retrieved on 2012-03-18Source Material [citeseerx.ist.psu.edu]
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18 MAR 2012
Dunning–Kruger effect
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The
authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these
domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make
unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4
studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of hum...
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People who are unskilled in domains grossly overestimate their abilities compared to those who are skilled.
