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

1 Faculty News March 17, 2018 ![Quartz logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_038218.gif?itok=JIQPnzXd)>

Excerpt from [Quartz](https://qz.com/1231534/the-person-whos-best-at-lying-to-you-is-you/) -- "In 1999, together with social psychologist [Justin Kruger](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/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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