Register here. If you prefer WhatsApp for updates, sign up to the BizNews channel here. Using their students as test subjects, David Dunning and Justin Kruger sought to better understand how we ...

David Dunning and Justin Kruger tested psychology students to see whether the least skilled were also the most unaware. Rich Vintage/E+ via Getty Images Eric C. Gaze, Bowdoin College To test this, ...

In a world overflowing with information, it is paradoxical how overconfidence often emerges from a lack of knowledge. This phenomenon is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, where those with the least ...

What is the Dunning-Kruger effect? The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which we overestimate our abilities in areas we know little about. Essentially it states that the more ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect describes a disturbing cognitive bias that afflicts us all. People with limited expertise in an area tend to overestimate how much they know—and we all have gaps in our ...

What Is the Dunning-Kruger Effect? The Dunning-Kruger effect happens when when someone who isn't especially knowledgeable in a particular area overestimates how much they know or how good they are ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias, reveals a curious paradox in human behavior—individuals with limited expertise tend to overestimate their abilities, while those with greater ...

In the 1990s, David Dunning and Justin Kruger were professors of psychology at Cornell University and wanted to test whether incompetent people were unaware of their incompetence. To test this ...