Why the Dunning-Kruger Curves You’ve Seen Are Wrong
How a popular psychology hypothesis is being misrepresented online
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4 min readJun 14, 2021
From the media to the workplace, it’s easy to spot people with an overinflated sense of their own ability. This phenomenon is explained by the Dunning-Kruger effect, a hypothesis that people who are bad at a task or skill have a cognitive bias towards thinking…