Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

What Is the Dunning-Kruger Effect? The Dunning-Kruger effect happens when when someone who isn't especially knowledgeable in a particular area overestimates how much they know or how good they are at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. David Dunning and Justin Kruger tested psychology students to see whether the least skilled were also the most unaware. Rich ...

In the 1990s, David Dunning and Justin Kruger were professors of psychology at Cornell University and wanted to test whether incompetent people were unaware of their incompetence. To test this, they ...

Several years back I wrote a post about the Dunning-Kruger effect. At the time I was still getting my metaphorical sea legs for writing and, as a result, I don't think the post turned out as well as ...

The Dunning-Kruger effect describes a disturbing cognitive bias that afflicts us all. People with limited expertise in an area tend to overestimate how much they know—and we all have gaps in our ...

Few psychological rules have as high a public profile as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Way back in 1999, David Dunning and Justin Kruger showed that the people who were least competent at a given task ...

In the 1990s, David Dunning and Justin Kruger were professors of psychology at Cornell University and wanted to test whether incompetent people were unaware of their incompetence. To test this, they ...

Several years back I wrote a post about the Dunning-Kruger effect. At the time I was still getting my metaphorical sea legs for writing and, as a result, I don't think the post turned out as well as ...

The lesson isn’t that dumb people are overconfident, according to its co-creator. It’s that you are. Few psychological rules have as high a public profile as the Dunning-Kruger effect. Way back in ...