Overconfidence and the Dunning–Kruger effect
Many people are unaware that they are victims of the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. Conversely, highly skilled individuals tend to underestimate their relative competence, falsely assuming that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for… Read More »