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The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why stupid people think they’re smart

The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Why incompetence breeds overconfidence.

The English philosopher Bertrand Russell once observed, “The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so sure of themselves, while wiser people are so full of doubt.” This astute observation encapsulates a psychological phenomenon now widely known as the Dunning-Kruger Effect. Named after psychologists David Dunning …

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