What Does The Dunning-Kruger Effect Mean To Developers?

Changhui Xu
codeburst
Published in
8 min readApr 14, 2020

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In this article, we will take a look at the Dunning-Kruger effect, and learn what it is and how it relates to developers.

Dunning-Kruger Effect

The Dunning-Kruger effect was first identified as a form of cognitive bias in an article by Kruger and Dunning in 1999. Let’s read the Wikipedia’s definition.

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