Overly Confident (#365)
In 1999, researchers David Dunning and Justin Kruger published a landmark study that revealed an unconscious cognitive bias now known as the Dunning Kruger effect. The Dunning-Kruger effect describes a situation where a person's lack of knowledge or skill in a certain area causes them to overestimate their own competence or ability in that same field.
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