The Dunning-Kruger effect may just be a data artefact (2020)

The Dunning-Kruger effect—the psychological finding that people with low ability tend to overestimate their competence—may not actually be real. Hacker News is highlighting research from McGill suggesting the phenomenon is a statistical artifact, a mathematical consequence of how the data is analyzed, rather than a genuine psychological bias.

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