The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people wrongly overestimate their knowledge or ability in a specific area. This tends to occur because a lack of self-awareness prevents them ...

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where people tend to overestimate their own abilities and knowledge in specific areas, especially when their actual competence level is low.

The rumor about the New York congresswoman originated from a network of Facebook pages and websites describing its output as ...

We all find it difficult to admit when we might be wrong. In an increasingly polarised world, it seems as if people are becoming more convinced of their own beliefs and less willing to contemplate ...

The page also makes a humorous mention of Snopes. The name of the satire-based website referenced the Dunning-Kruger effect, defined by Britannica as "a cognitive bias whereby people with limited ...

I just wrote the other day about willful ignorance, another of our human behaviors, so when I ran across this study in PNAS, I was curious about what they fo We have gotten used to trolls and ...