| Entry Date | 2021-02-03 |
| Source | Kruger, J. & Dunning, D. Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one’s own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments. Journal of personality and social psychology 77, 1121 (1999). |
| Link | Link |
| Source Type | Empirical study |
| Domain | Individuals |
| Subdomain1 | In general |
| Subdomain2 | Behaviour - aberrant |
| Key Points | People who are most ignorant about a topics are often the most confident of their knowledge - the "Dunning Kruger" effect |
| Citns | 6,575 |