Sunday 7 November 2021

The Irony of the Dunning-Kruger Effect

The Irony of the Dunning-Kruger Effect

Examining the irony of the well-loved Dunning-Kruger effect. For further resources, see below.

Sources:
* The original study: Kruger, J., & Dunning, D. (1999). Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 77(6), 1121-1134.
* The mentioned 2013 study: Simons, D. J. (2013). Unskilled and optimistic: Overconfident predictions despite calibrated knowledge of relative skill. Psychon Bill Rev, 20, 601-607.
* The mentioned 2018 study: Sanchez, C., Dunning, D. (2018). Overconfidence Among Beginners: Is a Little Learning a Dangerous Thing? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 114(1), 10-28.
* More information by Dunning: Dunning, D. (2011). The Dunning-Kruger Effect: On Being Ignorant of One's Own Ignorance. Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, 44, 247-296.

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