Dunning-Kruger bias

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Dunning-Kruger bias (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of Dunning-Kruger effect.
    • 2019 March 1, Management Association, Information Resources, Rapid Automation: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, IGI Global, →ISBN, page 1332:
      We tested three main behavioural characteristics of Dunning-Kruger bias, such as, unable to understand own lack of knowledge, unable to recognize other's true knowledge and, recognize and understand own lack of knowledge.
    • 2020 May 24, Phillip T. Erickson, Cognitive Behavior: This Book Includes: Cognitive Dissonance Theory, Mental Models, Critical Thinking, AND Cognitive Biases And The Blind Spots Of Critical Thinking, Phillip T. Erickson, page 329:
      We may think that the Dunning Kruger bias could not possibly apply to us because we can't really be hopelessly incompetent. But the point is how we would know. I am not saying that you suffer from that bias, but then you might be a []
    • 2020 August 28, Brian Hayward, The Great Chair: A Window on Effective Board Leadership, FriesenPress, →ISBN, page 125:
      So it is that the board—as a single decision-making entity—can have a group form of Dunning-Kruger bias, collectively blind to the collective cognitive gap. Another aspect of this bias stems from the fact that people overestimate []
    • 2021 July 6, Stan Toler, The Power of Your Personal Impact: How to Influence Others for Good, Harvest House Publishers, →ISBN, page 61:
      You've probably stood in church next to someone with a Dunning-Kruger bias. They belt out every song as if they were a great talent when they can barely carry a tune. The corollary to this effect is that people who have a high level of []