The Dunning–Kruger Effect

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Estimating the Relationship between Skill and Overconfidence (2017, methodology): “As evidence for this argument, they present an empirical pattern that is now known as the Dunning–Kruger effect: For many different tasks, low performers typically vastly overestimate their performance while high performers more accurately assess their performance ( Dunning, 2011 ).”
Links between intellectual humility and acquiring knowledge (2020, background): “The inverse has also been observed, that lacking awareness of the limits of one’s knowledge, which is one characteristic of a lack of IH, is more common among less knowledgeable people (Dunning, 2011).”
The Dunning-Kruger effect is (mostly) a statistical artefact: Valid approaches to testing the hypothesis with individual differences data (2020, background): “This effect has been studied with regard to various skills, including logical reasoning, grammar, and personal sense of humor, for example (Dunning, 2011).”