Dunning–Kruger effect Concepts

The Intelligence Trap: Revolutionise Your Thinking and Make Wiser Decisions

by David Robson · 7 Mar 2019 · 417pp · 103,458 words

Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-assessments’, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(6), 1121?34. 8 Dunning, D. (2011), ‘The Dunning–Kruger Effect: On Being Ignorant of One’s Own Ignorance’, in Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 44, Cambridge, MA: Academic Press, pp. 247?96. 9 Chiu

You Are Not So Smart

by David McRaney · 20 Sep 2011 · 270pp · 83,506 words

Sharpshooter Fallacy Chapter 6 - Procrastination Chapter 7 - Normalcy Bias Chapter 8 - Introspection Chapter 9 - The Availability Heuristic Chapter 10 - The Bystander Effect Chapter 11 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect Chapter 12 - Apophenia Chapter 13 - Brand Loyalty Chapter 14 - The Argument from Authority Chapter 15 - The Argument from Ignorance Chapter 16 - The Straw Man Fallacy

Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us Into Temptation

by Chris Nodder · 4 Jun 2013 · 254pp · 79,052 words

better than they actually were. This behavior—unskilled individuals suffering from illusive superiority, whereas skilled individuals suffer from illusive inferiority—is now known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Dunning and Kruger’s studies used tests of logical reasoning, grammar, and humor, but the same effect holds across other domains, at least for a

Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

by Gabriel Weinberg and Lauren McCann · 17 Jun 2019

in reality they are not. Surveys indicate that 70 percent of people become inflicted with impostor syndrome at some point in their careers. Have you? Dunning-Kruger Effect When people fall victim to impostor syndrome, they dismiss their successes as luck or deception and focus on their failures or fear of failure. This

The Art of Scalability: Scalable Web Architecture, Processes, and Organizations for the Modern Enterprise

by Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher · 1 Dec 2009

Are Most people are not as good a leader as they think. We make this assertion from our personal experience, and while relying on the Dunning-Kruger effect. Through their studies, David Dunning and Justin Kruger witnessed that we often overestimate our abilities and that the overestimation is most severe where we lack

Know Thyself

by Stephen M Fleming · 27 Apr 2021

et al. (2018). 8. Semendeferi et al. (2010); Neubert et al. (2014). 9. Cross (1977); Alicke et al. (1995). In a phenomenon known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, after its discoverers, overconfidence biases are most pronounced in those who perform poorly (Dunning, 2012; Kruger and Dunning, 1999). Kruger and Dunning propose that low

The Knowledge Illusion

by Steven Sloman · 10 Feb 2017 · 313pp · 91,098 words

have skills as well as knowledge about what constitutes being skilled. Ignorance means you have neither. This pairing explains what is commonly known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, that those who perform the worst overrate their own skills the most. The effect is found by giving a group of people a task to

The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win

by Maria Konnikova · 22 Jun 2020 · 377pp · 117,339 words

article about something she is a sudden expert. (David Dunning, a psychologist at the University of Michigan most famous for being one half of the Dunning-Kruger effect—the more incompetent you are, the less you’re aware of your incompetence—has found that people go quickly from being circumspect beginners, who are

The Behavioral Investor

by Daniel Crosby · 15 Feb 2018 · 249pp · 77,342 words

, the actual results were at or below chance levels. A related concept, perhaps my favorite in all of psychology, is what is known as the Dunning-Kruger effect. To put their findings indelicately, David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University found that dumb people are too dumb to know how dumb they

Beginners: The Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Learning

by Tom Vanderbilt · 5 Jan 2021 · 312pp · 92,131 words

and knowledge progress, there is a potential value to holding on to that beginner’s mind. In what’s come to be known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, the psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger famously showed that on various cognitive tests the people who did the worst were also the ones who