A new study suggests that the average person may be far more aware of their own lack of political knowledge than previously ...

In a study published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Cornell psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger discussed the concept of people not being able to recognize their own ...

One of the most contentious areas of health policy over the past two decades has been the safety of vaccination. Vaccines prevent the outbreak of diseases that used to be widespread, like polio, and ...

Intelligence failures almost never come from having too little information—they come from believing too much in what little ...

Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people come to incorrect conclusions about their knowledge and skill levels, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize ...

A study involving participants in Canada and the U.S. found that autistic employees are less susceptible to the ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect says people who know the least are most overconfident. Source: Photo by Samson Katt from Pexels The Dunning-Kruger effect is commonly invoked in online arguments to discredit ...

“There are several things that can be done to reduce the impact of both lack of confidence and the Dunning-Kruger Effect in engineers and inventors in the workplace, and especially during the patent ...

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is in full force these days. It posits that those with less knowledge of a subject have more certainty about the subject. For example, a layman is far more certain about the ...