Dunning-Kruger effect

English en Etymology en eponyms coinages en Dunning Kruger effect. Coined on everything2 in 2002 by user uucp,Everything2 page dated Oct 11 2002, titled "Dunning-Kruger Effect" who in 2005 copied the same entry to Wikipedia under the title Dunning-Kruger syndrome,Creation of the Wikipedia article at 19:21, 22 July 2005:en Dunning–Kruger effect 19392452 19:21, 22 July 2005 named for David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University, who studied the phenomenon. Noun Dunning-Kruger effect en Biases en psychology A cognitive bias where an individual with limited knowledge or competence in a specific domain tends to greatly overestimate their own ability relative to objective criteria or the performance of others. en DKE initialism Dunning-Kruger clipping Dunning-Kruger bias en Alex Lickerman The Undefeated Mind 2012 Simon and Schuster https://books.google.com/books?id=XtkfAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT92&dq=%22Dunning-Kruger+effect%22&hl=en&cd=18&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Dunning-Kruger%20effect%22&f=false 978-0-7573-1643-2 Though it grants them the advantage of higher levels of optimism, the Dunning-Kruger effect also hamstrings low performers with an even greater disadvantage: being less aware of their failings, they remain less likely to see the need, and thus make the effort, to improve themselves. en w:Tina Brown The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor—the Truth and the Turmoil 2022 Crown https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Palace_Papers/F6BEEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=The+Palace+Papers&printsec=frontcover 978-0-593-13810-6 [Prince] Andrew, unfortunately, exhibited classic symptoms of what is scientifically recognised as the Dunning-Kruger effect, the cognitive bias in which people come to believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. The combination of minimal self-awareness and dim wattage leads sufferers of this condition to overestimate their own capabilities. Derived terms en Dunning-Krugerrand See also en a little knowledge is a dangerous thing Downing effect Lake Wobegon effect References Further reading en Dunning–Kruger effect