Why incompetent people

think they're amazing?

 Are you as good at things as you think you are?

Managing money Healthy Better than average at grammar Reading people's emotions
 The Dunning-Kruger effect

• we're not very good at evaluating ourselves • we frequently overestimate our own abilities

The benefits of knowing how competent we are

Knowing how competent we are

When we can forge ahead on our own When we can forge ahead on our own decisions and instincts
A self-esteem boost
decisions and instincts
 Some examples of us judging ourselves above others

%
Company A Company B
42% of the engineers 32% of the engineers American drivers driving skills

rate their performance

above average

TOP
5%

• People tend to rate themselves better than most

• The least ability are often overrate their skills to the greatest extent
 Objects of The Dunning-Kruger effect

So who's most vulnerable venereble to this delusion? And why?

Sadly, all of us

We all have pockets of incompetence we don't recognize.

 REASON

But why?

First, they make mistakes and reach poor decisions Those knowledge gaps also prevent them from catching their errors.

Poor performers lack the very expertise needed to recognize how badly they're doing
 Example

In a college debate tournament

They thought
teams in preliminary rounds They winning almost 60%.

In fact
lost four out of every five matches

Don't recognize
when or how
Don't grasp of often their
the rules of arguments
debate broke down.
 Opposite case of illusory superiority

Student had initially done badly on a logic quiz Admit that their original performances as awful

People usually do admit their deficits once they can spot them.
 The opposite case of illusory superiority

Experts

humble

People with experience or expertise Aware of how knowledgeable they are. Less confidence in their abilities.

Mistake:
They assume that everyone else is
knowledgeable, too.

.They know enough to know that there's a lot they don't know
 Summarizing

Inaccurate self-perception

Unskilled

Exceptionally competent

Can't see their own faults. Don't perceive how unusual their abilities are

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 Solutions

First Second

Ask for feedback from other people, and consider it Keep learning

When arguing with a fool, first make sure the other person isn't doing
the same thing.
 
MỸ Ý: How to limit the Dunning-Kruger Effect on humans?
I think we should listen to other people's opinions and keep
learning, because you know, We only learn when we accept we
don't know
Dang: When was the last time you had the Dunning-
Kruger phenomenon? And how long did you realize it?

When I was in high school, I quit just to be good at certain

subjects and then go to college, but after going college I
realized that I wasn't even good at anything, and needed to
study more. Perhaps the environment with many talented
people helped me realize.
Vy: Can you give some examples of the bad effects of the
Dunning-Kruger phenomenon on life?
Dunning-Kruger will makes you limit your learning when you
think you have knowledge about a certain field, example you
are a fresh graduate looking for a job, you will not learn much if
you think knowledge from college is enough.