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Guest Post: Something is rotten in the state of education: high school biology in New Zealand

A guest post by Martin Hanson: In the 1990s two American social psychologists, David Dunning and Justin Kruger, began research to find out whether there was any relationship between people’s abilities and how accurately they judge their own abilities. They used undergraduate students as their subjects, and their research was published in 1999 with the
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Dunning-Kruger effect | Definition, Examples, & Facts

Dunning-Kruger effect, in psychology, a cognitive bias whereby people with limited knowledge or competence in a given intellectual or social domain greatly overestimate their own knowledge or competence in that domain relative to objective criteria or to the performance of their peers or of people in general. According to the researchers for whom it is named, psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger, the effect is explained by the fact that the metacognitive ability to recognize deficienci...
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Knowledge gaps fuel conspiracy theories from top of Mount Stupid

Knowledge gaps fuel conspiracy theories from top of Mount Stupid Scotlands leading crime expert Professor David Wilson is fed up with people who dont know very much about Criminology wanting to tell him how to do his job. Updated There are many theories around Princess Dianas death (Image: Contributed) Join thousands of others in getting the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox.Invalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use ...
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This Bizarre Story Has More To Do With Your Investing Success Than You Think

StreetAuthority February 19, 2021 I was sifting through financial twitter, or “Fintwit”, as it’s known, and came across an interesting post. It posed a question along the lines of “what’s your biggest investing/trading mistake?” As you may know, I’m fascinated by these kinds of questions. I believe that our investing behavior affects our performance much more than people realize. So wanting to see the responses, I clicked to view the comments. I thought I had an idea of what peopl...
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Is The Dunning - Kruger Effect An Artifact ?

Ever had a nervous breakdown by reading Facebook threads where absolutely incompetent people entertain similar ignoramuses by providing explanations of everything from quantum physics to the way vaccines work? Or did you ever have to apply yoga techniques to avoid jumping into a bar conversation wherein some smart ass worked his audience by explaining things he clearly did not have the dimmest clue about? If you never experienced such a feeling, this post is not for you. In fact, there is a ...
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