Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.

By Justin Kruger, David Dunning. 1999

Citations in the corpus

• Learning from Dialogue after Deployment: Feed Yourself, Chatbot! (2019, neutral): “This approach, however, falls victim to the Dunning-Kruger effect (Kruger and Dunning, 1999), which in this case suggests that a bad model will also be bad at knowing when it is doing a bad job.”
• Toward Untangling Creative Self-Beliefs (2017, unknown): “…performance outcome, the person may ignore the outcome and in essence buffer his or her CSE/CSC beliefs from a more accurate downadjustment (Kruger & Dunning, 1999).h Depending on the intensity or the frequency of similar hWe would argue that enhanced or exaggerated self-beliefs are not…”
• Measuring actual learning versus feeling of learning in response to being actively engaged in the classroom (2019, unknown): “These findings are consistent with the observations that novices in a subject are poor judges of their own competence (27 – 29), and the cognitive fluency of lectures can be misleading (30, 31).”
• I'm Too Good for This Job: Narcissism's Role in the Experience of Overqualification (2015, unknown): “Furthermore, individuals at the lowest end of a skill continuum seem to be the least accurate in their self-assessment (Kruger & Dunning, 1999), but individuals are less likely to overestimate their skill on tasks which are challenging to master (Kruger, 1999).”
• Self-Knowledge of Personality: Do People Know Themselves? (2010, unknown): “In study after study, people overestimate their abilities (Dunning, Meyerowitz, & Holzberg, 1989; Kruger & Dunning, 1999) and rate themselves more favorably than they rate others (Alicke, 1985; Brown, 1986; Messick, Bloom, Boldizar, & Samuelson, 1985; Taylor & Brown, 1988; Taylor, Lerner, Sherman,…”
• Cultural distance, mindfulness and passive xenophobia: using Integrated Threat Theory to explore home higher education students’ perspectives on ‘internationalisation at home’ (2009, unknown): “Following the principle that the least skilled are those least able to assess their inability (e.g. Kruger & Dunning, 1999), these individuals mistaken believe that they have transcended cultural difference.”
• Flawed Self-Assessment (2004, unknown): “Paradoxically, al-thoughtrainingpeopleonlogicimprovestheirskill,suchtraining also reveals to them past flaws in their logical reasoning, leading them to provide more pessimistic views of their logical reasoning ability at the moment their skill level rises (Kruger & Dunning, 1999).”
• The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth (2002, unknown): “Participants have been shown to be overconfident about their future performance on motor tasks (e.g., West & Stanovich, 1997 ), their abilities compared to other people’s abilities (e.g., Kruger & Dunning, 1999 ), and about their competence to perform a broad range of tasks ( Bjork, 1998 ).”
• Towards a Standard for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence (2022, unknown): “ability and objective ability, respectively [279].”
• Artificial intelligence versus Maya Angelou: Experimental evidence that people cannot differentiate AI-generated from human-written poetry (2020, unknown): “Multiple studies have revealed overconfidence, and hence the systematic over-estimation of one ’ s own capabilities (Kruger & Dunning, 1999).”