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August 29, 2009
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The Dunning–Kruger Effectis an example of cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it". They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average. This leads to a perverse result where less competent people will rate their own ability higher than relatively more competent people. -- Wikipedia
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I wonder if this will be renamed the Obama-Biden effect?
The most important thing to know is what you don't know.
Posted by: butch at August 29, 2009 3:54 PM
I think the term "delusions of adequacy" covers it well enough.
Posted by: Pete Madsen at August 30, 2009 9:05 AM