[post_page_title]‘Unskilled and unaware of it’[/post_page_title]
Dunning, along with graduate student Justin Kruger, found a link between how much a person knows about a certain task – or more to the point, how much they don’t know – and their confidence in their ability to carry it out well. The correlation was inverse – the less a person knew about something, the more confident they were of their abilities in that area. Thus, in an article titled “Unskilled and unaware of it,” the Dunning-Kruger effect was born. We can find examples all around us, both in popular culture and real life…
