# The Dunning-Kruger effect, joint research by Professor Justin Kruger, is featured

1 Faculty News May 12, 2017 ![Bloomberg View logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/bloombergview_0.jpg?itok=47DlvcFA)>

Excerpt from [Bloomberg View](https://www.bloombergquint.com/opinion/2017/05/12/trump-s-dangerous-disability-it-s-the-dunning-kruger-effect) -- "Named after psychologists David Dunning and [Justin Kruger](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/justin-kruger), the effect describes the way people who are the least competent at a task often rate their skills as exceptionally high because they are too ignorant to know what it would mean to have the skill."

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