Why We Think We Know More Than We Do
The original Cornell experiments found that bottom-quartile students rated their performance far above reality, while top performers often underestimated themselves.
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The philosopher René Descartes already warned him in one of the most important works in the history of thought, The discourse of method.With a phrase that touches irony, he exposes a truth that is uncomfortable: everyone thinks they have enough common sense.This idea, written almost four centuries ago, resonates strongly today. Descartes wrote: "Good sense is the best distributed thing in the world, since everyone thinks they are so well equippe…
According to the Dunning Kruger effect, people with a low level of competence tend to overestimate their abilities. A new statistical analysis now shows that earlier studies were distorted and that people with the highest level of competence tend to overestimate themselves. Bath (England). Psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger first described the so-called Dunning Kruger effect, according to which people with the lowest level of competen…
The Dunning Kruger effect describes that incompetence goes hand in hand with the greatest self-confidence, but that could be based on a statistical error.
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