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What Is the Dunning-Kruger Effect · Factually! with Adam Conover

Factually! with Adam Conover

Why We Get Things Wrong, Predicting the Actions of Others and Buying Daffodils with David Dunning

Experimental social psychologist, former Cornell University professor and current professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, David Dunning, joins Adam this week to discuss our brain's incredible power to be unaware of being wrong, the Dunning-Kruger Effect, and why the first rule of "Dunning-Kruger Club" is you don't know you're in the…

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  1. What Is the Dunning-Kruger Effect at 9:01

    Incompetent people lack the expertise to recognize that they are incompetent. We can observe this in other people, but it is very hard to see it in one self. Full answer

  2. How Can Anyone Become an Expert at Anything at 15:10

    According to Adam and David, only by realizing that you are not good at something will you be able to ask question and improve, in order to get better. Full answer

  3. Why Do Beginners Make No Mistakes at 19:32

    When starting to work on anything, most people start appropriately uncomfortable, unsure of what they don't know. Full answer

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