Why the Dunning-Kruger Curves You’ve Seen Are Wrong

How a popular psychology hypothesis is being misrepresented online

Bret Cameron
Curious
Published in
4 min readJun 14, 2021

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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…

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Bret Cameron
Curious

Writer and developer based in London. On Medium, I mainly write about JavaScript, web development and Rust 💻