Paper Review - Unskilled and Unaware of it - How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
People tend to project themselves as “better-than-average”. Those who are incompetent overestimate themselves, while those who are competent underestimate their ability. This phenomena is also known as dunning-kruger effect, which is one of cognitive biases. Summarization @startmermaid flowchart LR Incompetence – previous research –> Metacognitive Deficiencies – Dunning,Kruger –> Inflated Self-Assessments @endmermaid Previous researches mainly focused on ‘incompetence leads to metacognitive deficiencies’, while this research, which Dunning and Kruger published, targeted on ‘metacognitive deficiencies leads to inflated self-assessments.’ The following is how each groups behaved. ...