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Why incompetent people think they're amazing - David Dunning

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How good are you with money? What about reading people’s emotions? How healthy are you, compared to other people you know? Knowing how our skills stack up against others is useful in many ways. But psychological research suggests that we’re not very good at evaluating ourselves accurately. In fact, we frequently overestimate our own abilities. David Dunning describes the Dunning-Kruger effect.

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Influence of genders?

It seems to me that males are prone to overate themselves, while females often overlook themselves. I'm curious about the genders of participants in the Dunning-Kruger experiments.

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Im not a fan about thinking anything based on gender, I I think its about community which surround you and about you in general.

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