Justin Kruger

David Dunning

"Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One's Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments"

(1999) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

McArthur Wheeler (1995)

"(...) But I wore the juice."

People who have less knowledge of an actual subject think they know more than some of those more informed.

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Incompetent individuals tend to overestimate their own level of skill.

Incompetent individuals fail to recognize genuine skill in others.

Incompetent individuals fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy.

If they can be trained to substantially improve their own skill level, these individuals can recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill.

tactics for the win

People are unable to internalise their accomplishments. Despite external evidence, they are convinced they are frauds and do not deserve success.

Impostor Syndrome

Impostor Syndrome

what I think others know

what I know

My repertoire of keyboard shortcuts was relatively pathetic.

I was not fount of esoteric details of various programming languages.

I could not expound on the pros and cons of two competing technologies with religious fervor.

I did not try to implement algorithms in academic papers for fun.

I did not skip meals to code.

And surely the nail in the coffin was that I had not watched a single episode of Star Trek.

Alicia Liu

(head of engineering at NavaPBC)

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what I

know

what others know

tactics for the win

riccastelhano

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