Dunning-Kruger effect
English
Etymology
Coined on everything2 in 2002 by user uucp,[1] who in 2005 copied the same entry to Wikipedia under the title Dunning-Kruger syndrome,[2] named for David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University, who studied the phenomenon.
Noun
Dunning-Kruger effect (plural Dunning-Kruger effects)Category:English lemmas#DUNNINGKRUGEREFFECTCategory:English nouns#DUNNINGKRUGEREFFECTCategory:English countable nouns#DUNNINGKRUGEREFFECTCategory:English multiword terms#DUNNINGKRUGEREFFECTCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#DUNNINGKRUGEREFFECTCategory:Pages with entries#DUNNING-KRUGER%20EFFECTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#DUNNING-KRUGER%20EFFECT
- Category:en:Biases#DUNNINGKRUGEREFFECT(psychologyCategory:en:Psychology#DUNNINGKRUGEREFFECT) 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.
- Synonyms: DKE (initialism), Dunning-Kruger (clipping), Dunning-Kruger bias
- 2012, Alex Lickerman, The Undefeated Mind, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#DUNNINGKRUGEREFFECT
- 2022, Tina Brown, The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor—the Truth and the Turmoil, Crown, →ISBN:
- [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.Category:English terms with quotations#DUNNINGKRUGEREFFECT
See also
References
- ↑ Everything2 page dated Oct 11 2002, titled "Dunning-Kruger Effect"
- ↑ (Creation of the Wikipedia article at 19:21, 22 July 2005):2005 July 22, Wikipedia contributors, “Dunning–Kruger effect”, in English Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, revision 19392452:
Further reading
Dunning–Kruger effect on Wikipedia.Wikipedia