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Dunning-Kruger Effect
“The phenomenon wherein people who have little knowledge think that they know more than others who have much more knowledge.” Dunning-Kruger_effect
Manifestations include:
- incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill,
- incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others,
- incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy,
- if they can be trained to substantially improve their own skill level, these individuals can recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill.