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Dunning–Kruger effect

cognitive bias in which incompetent people tend to assess themselves as skilled
Event cognitive_bias Q639444

Facts

6 properties
Instance of
cognitive bias
Inception
1999[5]
Part of
psychological terminology[4]
Facet of
circle of competence[6]
Described by source
Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments[7]
Named after
David Dunning, Justin Kruger[2][3]
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 11
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Mr Pipo Dunning kruger.svg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
science/Dunning-Kruger-effect
FactGrid item ID
Gerardus van der Leeuw
Freebase ID
/m/0714hr
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Dunning-Kruger-effekten
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
effekt-danninga-kriugera-4f35d7
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2780683077
Quora topic ID
Dunning–Kruger-Effect-2
RationalWiki ID
Dunning–Kruger_effect
Subreddit
dunningkruger
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["PhysicalEffect", "DunningKrugerEffect"]

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Named after 2
David Dunning, Justin Kruger
Instance of 1
cognitive bias
← Has contributing factor 1
Nobel disease
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Summary

Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias[1].

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  5. [6] ↑ . fs.blog. fs.blog. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  1. 20w ago · Tholzheim · 2026-06-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → cognitive bias
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    Inception → +1999-00-00T00:00:00Z
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