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DeSwiss

(27,137 posts)
8. Yep. Dunning-Kruger Strikes Again!!!
Tue Jul 24, 2012, 11:50 AM
Jul 2012
''The Dunning-Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which unskilled people make poor decisions and reach erroneous conclusions, but their incompetence denies them the metacognitive ability to recognize their mistakes. The unskilled therefore suffer from illusory superiority, rating their ability as above average, much higher than it actually is.....''


- Between Dunning-Kruger and American Exceptionalism, it's a wonder we can still function as a country at all.......
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