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The Dunning-Kruger effect, Professor Justin Kruger's joint research on self-perception, is featured

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Excerpt from Quartz -- "In 1999, together with social psychologist Justin Kruger, Dunning identified the co-eponymous Dunning-Kruger effect: people who are incompetent and lack knowledge in a field tend to massively overestimate their abilities because, quite simply, they don’t know enough to recognize what they don’t know. So hugely unqualified people erroneously believe that they’re perfectly qualified."

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