Show pageOld revisionsBacklinksBack to top You've loaded an old revision of the document! If you save it, you will create a new version with this data. Media Files ====Dunning-Kruger Effect==== "The phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge." [[wp>Dunning-Kruger_effect]] Manifestations include: - incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill, - incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others, - incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy, - if they can be trained to substantially improve their own skill level, these individuals can recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill. ---- David Dunning of Cornell University and Justin Kruger of the University of Illinois, won the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for PSYCHOLOGY for their modest report, "Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments." [Published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, vol. 77, no. 6, December 1999, pp. 1121-34.] http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf Please fill all the letters into the box to prove you're human. Please keep this field empty: SavePreviewCancel Edit summary Note: By editing this page you agree to license your content under the following license: CC Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International dunning-kruger_effect.1185460788.txt.gz Last modified: 2007-07-26 14:39by nik