Home » Bias of the week » Dunning-Kruger Effect
People who performed poorly on tests (logic, grammar) often believed they did better than they did.
They also thought they were among the best performers.
People with little experience often overestimate their skills and knowledge because they aren’t aware of what they don’t know
See the full study here :
Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (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), 1121-1134. https://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.77.6.1121
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