The Dunning-Kruger effect, named after David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University, occurs where people fail to adequately assess their level of competence — or specifically, their incompetence — at a task and thus consider themselves much more competent than everyone else.
This lack of awareness is attributed to their lower level of competence robbing them of the ability to critically analyse their performance, leading to a significant overestimate of themselves.
This is not terribly surprising and can be explained as a form of psychological projection: those who found the tasks easy (and thus scored highly) mistakenly thought that they would also be easy for others, whereby high achievers fail to recognise their talents as they think that others must be equally good.
Meanwhile, overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.
The effect can also be summarised by the phrase "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing." A small amount of knowledge can mislead a person into thinking that they're an expert because this small amount of knowledge isn't a well known fact.
I feel enlightened @Yukkuri Oniisan-sensei. So I've always viewed myself as fairly competent but maybe it's the Dunning-Kruger Effect or maybe I'm far more competent than I though and it's imposter syndrome? Although maybe I have a good grasp on my competence. How can I know. Yukkuri-sensei?
@Little Dragon To really know about if we really competent or not, could be known from our result. The easiest one is written test, the hardest one is from work/research paper. It is better to assume we don't know anything than otherwise, since it is Hubris
@Faylord Yes... That's why I can't stop opening new tab in Wikipedia and or internet articles... so much to learn.... (make sure the source is reliable though)
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