18 Dec
Dunning-Kruger effect
What a marvelous discovery (thanks to comments at P.Z.’s blog) The Dunning-Kruger effect:
is an example of cognitive bias in which “people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it”. They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average.
Yup. That’s pretty [...]
