Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe they are smarter and more capable than they are. Low-ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their ...

In the 1990s, David Dunning and Justin Kruger were professors of psychology at Cornell University and wanted to test whether incompetent people were unaware of their incompetence. To test this, they ...

Jeff Somers is a freelancer who has been writing about writing, books, personal finance, and home maintenance since 2012. When not writing, Jeff spends his free time fixing up his old house. He has ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect shows that confidence and skill do not always match. Sometimes the least qualified person dominates the conversation, and sometimes the most capable holds back. The challenge ...

In the 1990s, David Dunning and Justin Kruger were professors of psychology at Cornell University and wanted to test whether incompetent people were unaware of their incompetence. To test this, they ...

Several years back I wrote a post about the Dunning-Kruger effect. At the time I was still getting my metaphorical sea legs for writing and, as a result, I don't think the post turned out as well as ...

Few psychological rules have as high a public profile as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Way back in 1999, David Dunning and Justin Kruger showed that the people who were least competent at a given task ...

Eduardo Mello is the co-founder and CTO of Alabama Solutions, which offers nearshore outsourcing and IT staff augmentation services. The Dunning-Kruger effect, a cognitive bias, reveals a curious ...

The lesson isn’t that dumb people are overconfident, according to its co-creator. It’s that you are. Few psychological rules have as high a public profile as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Way back in ...