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New research turns the Dunning-Kruger effect on its head: Rethinking the confident incompetent

Researchers at the University of Bath and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) suggest that the celebrated Dunning-Kruger effect, often taken to mean the least competent people are the most overconfident, may actually be the wrong way around.

New research turns the Dunning-Kruger effect on its head: Rethinking the confident incompetent
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Researchers at the University of Bath and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) suggest that the celebrated Dunning-Kruger effect, often taken to mean the least competent people are the most overconfident, may actually be the wrong way around.

Originally published at Phys.org

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