The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why People Overestimate Their Knowledge and Ability
Deep Dive into The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why People Overestimate Their Knowledge and AbilityThe Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias in which individuals with limited knowledge or skill in a specific area significantly overestimate their own competence. This occurs because the very skills required to perform a task well are also the skills needed to accurately evaluate one's performance. Consequently, people lacking expertise not only make errors but also lack the metacognitive ability to recognize them. This phenomenon is driven by a false sense of simplicity when first encountering a…
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