Why the Unskilled Are Unaware: Further Explorations of (Absent) Self-Insight Among the Incompetent.

By Joyce Ehrlinger, Kerri L. Johnson, Matthew Banner, D. Dunning, Justin Kruger. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 2008

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Subfields: Applied Psychology, General Decision Sciences, Social Psychology

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Training metacognition in the classroom: the influence of incentives and feedback on exam predictions (2011, background): “According to the double-curse explanation of low performing students abilities (see Ehrlinger et al. 2008 ), low performers’ inadequacy at the task prevents them from doing well and also precludes their awareness of what they do not know.”
Rethinking Construction Cost Overruns: Cognition, Learning and Estimation (2014, background): “Kruger and Dunning (2009), as well as Ehrlinger et al (2008) attribute lack of performance improvement to the lack of accurate and constructive feedback.”
Peer and self assessment in massive online classes (2013, background): “Reasons for this bias are probably similar to the illusory superiority effect (Ehrlinger et al. 2008).”
The Dunning–Kruger Effect (2011, background): “From Ehrlinger et al. (2008), by Elsevier Publications.”
True Overconfidence: The Inability of Rational Information Processing to Account for Apparent Overconfidence (2011, positive): “This finding is consistent with the idea that poor performers also lack metacognitive skills (Ehrlinger et al., 2008).”
How unaware are the unskilled? Empirical tests of the “signal extraction” counterexplanation for the Dunning–Kruger effect in self-evaluation of performance (2013, background): “…25% of performers) dramatically overestimate how well they have done, in both absolute terms and in comparisons with their peers (Dunning, Johnson, Ehrlinger, & Kruger, 2003; Ehrlinger et al., 2008; Kruger & Dunning, 1999; Sheldon, Dunning, & Ames, in press; Williams, Dunning, & Kruger, 2013).”
Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence (2017, methodology): “3 See Feld (2014) for a more extensive discussion on the biases of other estimation methods.”
Measuring the Academic Self-Efficacy of First-year Accounting Students (2014, result): “These results are consistent with the findings in the educational psychology literature, which explores the judgment of learning theory (Ehrlinger et al., 2008; Kruger and Dunning, 1999).”
Predicting biases in very highly educated samples: Numeracy and metacognition (2014, background): “Interestingly, although many studies treat confidence as a linear variable, here the relationship between confidence and performance was found to be curvilinear, resulting in an “unskilled and unaware” effect (Ehrlinger & Dunning, 2003; Ehrlinger et al., 2008).”
Feeling feedback: students’ emotional responses to educator feedback (2017, background): “Scholars also argue that over inflated self-assessments can persist even in the face of repeated evidence to the contrary, such as low grades and negative feedback comments (Kruger and Dunning 1999; Ehrlinger et al. 2008).”
Swedish teenagers’ difficulties and abilities to determine digital news credibility (2019, background): “A vast amount of research in the field of overconfidence shows an overestimation of performance among incompetent performers and underconfidence in high performers, called the Kruger-Dunning effect (e.g. Kruger & Dunning, 1999; Dunning et al., 2003; Dunning, et al., 2004; Kruger & Dunning, 2002; Ehr”