Dunning-Kruger effect

English

Etymology

Studied by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University.

Proper noun

Dunning-Kruger effect

  1. A cognitive bias by which an unskilled individual suffers from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating his/her ability as much higher than it actually is.
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