# Professor Justin Kruger's joint research on self-perception is referenced

1 Faculty News May 15, 2017 ![The New York Times Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/uat_027320.jpg?itok=W8xBr66g)>

Excerpt from [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/opinion/trump-classified-data.html?_r=0) -- "\[President Trump\] is thus the all-time record-holder of the Dunning-Kruger effect, the phenomenon in which the incompetent person is too incompetent to understand his own incompetence."

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