Dunning-Kruger Effect

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Learning
Description

“Relatively unskilled persons suffer illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than it really is…[and] highly skilled individuals may underestimate their relative competence and may erroneously assume that tasks which are easy for them are also easy for others.” (related: overconfidence effect)

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Source

Gabriel Weinberg's Mental Models I Find Repeatedly Useful