David Dunning explains how people can avoid overestimating their own knowledge, a psychological bias called the Dunning-Kruger effect ...

Have you ever been in a conversation where someone who doesn’t know much about a topic talks as if they’re the ultimate expert?

Grant has long argued that thinking like a scientist will make you more successful. A new European study of startups backs him up.

Actually, you're more likely to fall for this one.There is a certain type of smart person who loves to highlight the flaws in everyone else's thinking. Elon Musk is one. He once took to X with a long ...

Psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger discovered something surprising about how people judge their own abilities. Their research, called the Dunning-Kruger effect, shows that people who know v ...

As psychologist David Dunning, who is famous for studying stupidity, once put it, “Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition.” ...

Social psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger first identified the Dunning-Kruger effect in a 1999 study at Cornell University.

Key points The Dunning-Kruger Effect is an illusory cognitive bias marked by overestimating one’s competence, intelligence, or knowledge base. People who frequently use search engines like ...

The X owner thinks artificial general intelligence is ‘smarter than the smartest human’. But it’s not as clever as he thinks ...

Understanding the Dunning-Kruger Effect The concept of the Dunning-Kruger effect is based on a 1999 paper by Cornell University psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger.

Understanding the Dunning-Kruger Effect The concept of the Dunning-Kruger effect is based on a 1999 paper by Cornell University psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger.